• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

You cannot is what you are saying.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

Can you actually undertake, guarantee to us now then, that your budget, when it comes early next year, will deliver to five wards per borough, the full quota that you promised in your step change?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

No, Mr Mayor, I think you misunderstand your own policy. They get the same number in each neighbourhood. What I was questioning is where those Neighbourhood Police are going to come from, and what I am putting to you - and which is a fact - is that some of those police officers will be redeployed from jobs which they are already doing in those boroughs.

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

I am sure you will agree with me that this attempt to foment disputes between inner London boroughs and outer London boroughs is wholly unacceptable, because you are the Mayor for the whole of London. However, in that context, it is worth pointing out that the number of police officers in the London Borough of Hackney, which Jennette Arnold represents, actually increased by 15% between September 2003 and September 2004, whereas in one of the boroughs which I represent, Richmond upon Thames, the number of police actually fell in that period by 4%. Would not you also agree that your...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

You accept that, therefore, they declined under a Labour Government.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

Now will you answer the question I asked you?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

How do you explain, then, that there are fewer police officers in the London Borough of Bromley now than there were in 1997?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

One might assume that Government might take its own White Papers seriously and might expect the public to take them seriously. How do you resolve your desire for saturation policing in London with the fact that Government, in its White Paper and in the money that it has so far put on the table, gives you no promise of anything extra for more police officers in London, when you contrast that with the commitment of the Conservative Party to provide 8,000 police officers in London.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

In terms of the western extension, is that a consideration as well to take on board, given that the western extension almost certainly would cover all the embassies in Belgravia?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

Are you still not obliged to provide value for money?