• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Could I ask you whether you're happy with the Mayor's suggestion that it would be quite easy, in fact, to find the odd £1 million swashing around in the funds here and there, to pay for the unmarked police cars that can't be registered? Are you happy that he thinks it's quite easy to find £1 million swashing around?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

What would be the cost to the Metropolitan Police of the congestion charge?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Now, can I ask another further question about the 1,000 officers? You have said this morning, in your preamble that the budget proposed to the Mayor, for precept of 1,000 officers. So, that will mean there will mean a huge increase, because we have already been told that the money that was precepted for 1,000 officers actually doesn't pay for 1,000 officers. It pays for on costs, as Len Duvall has tried to get at, for about 600 officers. Now, my understanding was that a conversation was going to be had with the Mayor as to whether he would relax...

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

I will bring us back to the original question, interesting though that exchange has been, which in a sense was about the clarity and the presentation of information. Is the Chair aware that we have been making - by we, I mean the Finance Committee, and particularly the Budget Review Group on which Eric Ollerenshaw sits, and attends regularly - we have been making efforts to try to present the financial information in a much clearer way and a simpler way, whilst maintaining obviously its accuracy. Would he, like me, welcome any suggestions, whether they be from Eric or from...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Would you agree that what the people of Lambeth want is continued action to go on reducing crime levels and which I take it as read that you do, and if so, would you agree that people and politicians, including people round this table and in this Chamber, who want to improve policing and reduce crime, should concentrate their attention on things like overall police resource levels, policing policies and policing procedures, and rather less on personalities?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

I support the warm comments you've made about the performance about Commander Brian Moore during this period, and there have been great strides in Lambeth. But do you not think it's a legitimate aspiration for them as a Police Service and an authority to wish to employ a senior officer such as Brian Paddick, who enjoy the level of trust and support and engagement with their local communities. And do you not feel that disrupting that kind of relationship is essentially counter-productive and we ought to be trying to preserve the asset of the good relationship that Commander Paddick clearly...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

There is a perception, a widespread perception, that Brian Paddick has been rather shabbily treated by both the MPA and the MPS on this issue. I think it leaves the MPA's image somewhat tarnished. What are you going to do to try and restore confidence, particularly in Lambeth, in both the MPA and the policing service generally?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Is this the right way to treat someone who's been cleared by the Crown Prosecution Service, been cleared by the internal inquiry, yet remains sidelined in a job - whilst it's an important job - is not the job that Brian Paddick was doing, and is not something that fully utilises his skills?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Are you suggesting that had no controversy come up about the cannabis pilots, had no controversy come up from allegations from a former partner, all the rest of it - had this controversy not arisen, then Commander Paddick would still be removed from Lambeth anyway?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

I think 14 year old males are well known for their devotion to cleaning up after themselves! Can you tell me what you have done in your strategies or programmes to divert youths from graffiti? Where have they fitted into your strategies, and what have you done so far?