• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

What do you think about the possibility of detention for those who fail to take a course of treatment? That's been suggested by some public health professionals.

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Back to TB and rickets, I would remind you that part of my constituency which is in West London has an incidence of tuberculosis which is higher than South Africa. When you've gone through the number of incidences of disease where people who have tuberculosis should be tested - you also referred to tuberculosis and HIV; both you and I are aware there can be an interlinkage. Since 1997, there's been no national or London campaign for HIV education or prevention work until the last two or three weeks. And we have all seen the massive increase in the incidence...

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Would you know what he said then?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Do you know if the Mayor has had any discussions with the Department of Health about the level of child vaccination in London?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Has the Mayor put out a statement to that effect?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

16,000 Londoners die every year from coronary heart disease. It would be difficult to kill that many with a machine gun if you walked around the streets of London; 16,000 people. It's a huge epidemic. Survival rates from cardiac arrests are around 2% in London, which is one of the lowest, I think, in the western world. What is the GLA going to do about improving cardiac emergency care, defribulation, oxygen support schemes?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

What's the Mayor doing about it then to get that capital money into local authorities to improve their housing?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

But rickets is a problem of education, about children and babies' nutrition and of course people coming into this country not aware of how to get this proper nutrition that perhaps they found elsewhere. What do you think about the health impact assessment that have been done on the Mayor's Strategy? It's hardly surely impacting at all, particularly in the case of housing, where local authorities are still not improving the quality of their social housing, and people are living in damp and unsavoury conditions, which in fact contribute to contagious diseases, particularly tuberculosis. So, what I'm saying to you...

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

You're right. What we have noticed when we looked at childhood immunisation was in fact the lack of tracking in new instances, in the case of trying to track people with tuberculosis and their treatment. Are you satisfied that immigrants arriving in the capital, as new residents who will stay here, are receiving adequate health screening on arrival? It's so important for their well-being that health problems are picked up early, any problems with children or adults are picked up early and addressed. And I have no confidence, in fact, that that is actually being addressed and that ongoing health...

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 19 June 2002

The issue in my particular case, as an Assembly Member, I was told by TfL in a very haughty fashion, "There's no problem down there, we don't need to have a meeting with you" and that was four months ago and still there are problems down there. There is an issue in the quality of relationship between TfL and the constituency members. We asked, three months ago, for a protocol in terms of the quality of communication between TfL and Assembly Members. We are elected as well and we have a role to be able to represent our constituents and...