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Appointment of Brexit Advisers (2)

  • Reference: 2017/0331
  • Question by: Peter Whittle
  • Meeting date: 18 January 2017
Are recent news reports that you have appointed Baroness Shriti Vadera to your 'Brexit Expert Advisory Panel' true; and if so, what expertise might the architect of the botched plan to privatise London Underground bring to your counsels?

Appointment of Brexit Advisers (1)

  • Reference: 2017/0330
  • Question by: Peter Whittle
  • Meeting date: 18 January 2017
Is it true that you have hired ex-EU Trade Commissioner, Cabinet Minister and Remain campaigner Lord (Peter) Mandelson to advise you on Brexit; and if so, what employment terms and emoluments have been agreed with the noble lord?

Hate Crime

  • Reference: 2017/0329
  • Question by: Peter Whittle
  • Meeting date: 18 January 2017
In the light of the widely-reported spike in hate crime since 24 June 2016, how many individuals have been and are currently in the process of being prosecuted for hate crime in the Greater London area?

Graduate-Only Police Officers

  • Reference: 2017/0328
  • Question by: Peter Whittle
  • Meeting date: 18 January 2017
What is your position on the College of Policing's announcement that all new police officers will have to be graduates from 2020? Would the public not be better served if police officers were recruited and promoted on the basis of possessing a degree of common sense?

Project Servator

  • Reference: 2017/0327
  • Question by: Peter Whittle
  • Meeting date: 18 January 2017
What progress has been made by Metropolitan Police 'spotter teams' in detecting 'nervous' fanatics, carrying out hostile reconnaissance of targets in London?

Self-build homes

  • Reference: 2017/0326
  • Question by: Peter Whittle
  • Meeting date: 18 January 2017
The UK trails Europe in the percentage of homes self-built. Can the Mayor commit to a self-build target on TFL land and so set an example for the rest of the country?

Night Czar

  • Reference: 2017/0325
  • Question by: David Kurten
  • Meeting date: 18 January 2017
How are the night czar's late night tube journeys, armed with a clipboard and questionnaire, bringing real benefits to London's night-time economy?

Affordable housing

  • Reference: 2017/0324
  • Question by: Peter Whittle
  • Meeting date: 18 January 2017
Does the Mayor agree that affordable housing can often simply stoke up the housing bubble by introducing artificial demand at an artificially low price?

Allotments

  • Reference: 2017/0323
  • Question by: Peter Whittle
  • Meeting date: 18 January 2017
With more than 700 allotment sites across Greater London, what can the Mayor do to make sure they are protected from development and so continue to act as social hubs and ecological oases, promoting not only healthy lifestyles, but also a place for children to learn?

Agency workers

  • Reference: 2017/0320
  • Question by: Fiona Twycross
  • Meeting date: 18 January 2017
The number of agency workers has grown by 30 per cent since 2011 and 18 per cent of agency workers are based in London. What can be done to provide workers' rights and security to agency workers who are often disadvantaged not only by lower pay, but also because they are not entitled to sick or parental leave pay and are more easily dismissed?
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