Jenny Jones
News from Jenny Jones: No action plan for safer roads, as cycling casualties rise
13 MARCH 2012
London casualty figures for the first nine months of 2011 show a rise in both the number of cyclists and the number of motorcyclists killed and seriously injured, compared to a similar period in 2010.
The proportion of casualties that are vulnerable road users has grown in the last decade, from being just over half the total (54%) to now being over two thirds (69%) of the killed and injured in London. Jenny Jones AM has now asked the Mayor to release a detailed breakdown of the casualty data for the whole of 2011.
News from Jenny Jones: Lower rents and more security needed to stop rise in homelessness
8 MARCH 2012
Abstract: Government figures show a rise of 36% in the number of people becoming homeless in London in the last quarter of 2011 compared with the same period in 2010.
News from Jenny Jones: London cycle hire scheme still falls short
8 MARCH 2012
Abstract: Concerns have been expressed that even with today’s expansion, the London cycle hire scheme will fail to match the Paris scheme.
News from Jenny Jones: 90% of McDonald’s chicken at London Games to be imported
7 MARCH 2012
Abstract: Sebastian Coe, Chair of LOCOG, admitted at today’s London Assembly meeting that only ten percent of chicken to be served by McDonald’s at the 2012 Games, is likely to be from UK farms.
Sebastian Coe, the Chair of the London Olympic and Paralympic organising committee, LOCOG, today admitted that McDonald’s, the official 2012 London Games food sponsor, will only source 10% of its chicken from UK farmers. The answer was obtained by London Assembly Member Jenny Jones at the London Assembly Plenary meeting, on Wednesday 7th March.
News from Jenny Jones: Drivers with 12 or more points still on the road
7 MARCH 2012
Abstract: More than 2,800 drivers with 12 or more points on their licence are still permitted to drive in London
There are more than 2,800 drivers with 12 or more points on their licence who are still permitted to drive in London, according to figures from the DVLA. The figures also show that there is one person with a shocking 30 points, with current entitlement to drive.
News from Jenny Jones: £90m 'bail out' will keep police officer numbers high, but at likely cost to civilian staff
7 MARCH 2012
Abstract: Concern has been expressed by Jenny Jones that whilst extra police officers are being funded in 2012/13 by extra government grant, in future years it will only be possible to keep the officer numbers high by drastically reducing the Met’s civilian workforce, resulting in a less cost effective organisation
News from Jenny Jones: Mayor slows down hybrid bus roll out
7 MARCH 2012
Abstract: A mayoral pledge that all new buses would be hybrid (or equivalent standard) by 2012 has been dropped
Jenny Jones will question the Mayor of London tomorrow about why he dropped his pledge that all new buses would be hybrids from 2012 onwards. The Mayor has said that only 52 of the 800 new buses on London’s roads in the next financial year are certain to be hybrids. This is less than a third of the 162 which are due to have entered service in the current financial year.
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News from Jenny Jones: “Best solution to gangs is a job”
7 MARCH 2012
Abstract: More detail is needed on how the Met’s new approach will engage with communities and how partnership work with social agencies will be funded, according to Jenny Jones.
The Metropolitan Police today launched their new strategy to tackle gangs. The new approach will involve 1,000 officers dedicated to tackling gang related crime. Responding to the new approach,
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News from Jenny Jones: Olympics tickets flown to the “Greenest Games”
7 MARCH 2012
Abstract: The organising committee for the 2012 Games’ decision to procure tickets from the US rather than more locally has been criticised on environmental grounds by Jenny Jones.
Jenny Jones has called for Locog to review their purchasing policies after it was revealed that the 11 million tickets will be flown across to the UK from Arkansa, USA. All contracts are supposed to be assessed against Locog’s procurement code, which includes consideration of climate change impacts.
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News from Jenny Jones AM: New TfL figures show cycling not getting safer
2 FEBRUARY 2012
Abstract: New figures fail to support Mayor’s claim that cycle safety has improved in the last few years.
Newly published official figures show that whilst cycling in London is safer than it was in 2000, the trend has reversed since around 2007/08. The annual casualty figures where already known, but the Travel in London report has now issued revised figures for the number of cycle journey stages per day, broken down by each year since 2000.
