Skip to main content
Mayor of London logo London Assembly logo
Home

Forensic Science Service (FSS) archive - recommendations

  • Reference: 2012/2478
  • Question by: Tony Arbour
  • Meeting date: 19 September 2012
With the closure of the national FSS archive, should we introduce clear recommendations to ensure the MPS keeps all relevant material relating to crimes?

Forensic Science Service (FSS) archive - MPS facilities

  • Reference: 2012/2477
  • Question by: Tony Arbour
  • Meeting date: 19 September 2012
With the closure of the FSS archive - which housed more than 1.7 million case files which were regularly used to investigate unsolved crimes and review miscarriages of justice - does the MPS have adequate facilities and resources to protect and preserve forensic archive material?

Tech City (2)

  • Reference: 2012/2476
  • Question by: Tony Arbour
  • Meeting date: 19 September 2012
The Tech City report also identified a lack of highly skilled developers in the cluster as a significant problem for expanding firms. Will you commit to prioritising apprenticeships in tech firms as a way of addressing this skills gap?

Tech City (1)

  • Reference: 2012/2475
  • Question by: Tony Arbour
  • Meeting date: 19 September 2012
A report published over the summer by the Centre for London argued that the desire to grow Tech City eastwards and into the Olympic Park is desirable, but unlikely to be successful. Do you agree? How would you like Tech City to expand geographically?

Tenants' rights

  • Reference: 2012/2474
  • Question by: Darren Johnson
  • Meeting date: 19 September 2012
Will your London Rental Standard encourage landlords to offer tenants more than the minimum rights guaranteed by Assured Shorthold Tenancies?

Cyclist death at Junction of Ruckholt Road and Eastway (6)

  • Reference: 2012/2473
  • Question by: Darren Johnson
  • Meeting date: 19 September 2012
Will you now change the layout of this junction to abandon the motorway-style layout which includes a 40mph speed limit onto a high-speed slip road?

Cyclist death at Junction of Ruckholt Road and Eastway (5)

  • Reference: 2012/2472
  • Question by: Darren Johnson
  • Meeting date: 19 September 2012
Was this junction on one of the routes which Transport for London advised cyclists to use to get to and from one of the Olympic Park cycle parking sites, due to the canal path closure?

Cyclist death at Junction of Ruckholt Road and Eastway (4)

  • Reference: 2012/2471
  • Question by: Darren Johnson
  • Meeting date: 19 September 2012
Did you ensure that bus drivers for the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, were given the same training in cycle safety as regular drivers on the London bus fleet?

Cyclist death at Junction of Ruckholt Road and Eastway (3)

  • Reference: 2012/2470
  • Question by: Darren Johnson
  • Meeting date: 19 September 2012
Do you feel that the additional signage measures which were put in place at the junction of Ruckholt Road and Eastway after the death of the cyclist there, should have been in place before the collision?

Cyclist death at Junction of Ruckholt Road and Eastway (2)

  • Reference: 2012/2469
  • Question by: Darren Johnson
  • Meeting date: 19 September 2012
Can you provide a copy of the safety audit which was carried out in advance of these changes to the junction? Did the safety audit or any other Transport for London report comment upon the 'safety' of temporarily removing advanced stop lines at this junction?
Subscribe to