• Reference: 2012/0080
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 25 January 2012

CPS staff working in Integrated Prosecution Teams at police stations are able to directly engage with officers and receive reports and evidence directly, enabling efficient preparation of case files. Do you share concerns that the removal of Integrated Prosecution Teams from police stations could lead to delays in justice?

• Reference: 2012/0079
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 25 January 2012

What action are you currently taking to make improvements to services on the West Anglia Route which runs through my constituency, and specifically what are you doing to ensure progress is made on the four-tracking proposals for the route?

• Reference: 2012/0078
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 25 January 2012

A constituent has contacted me about the difficulty he experiences in reading bus stop signs, and in particular the SMS bus stop code plates installed as part of Transport for London's recently launched bus arrival information system. He is a wheelchair user and struggles to read the signs because of their small size and elevated position. This is apparently a particular problem at night where bus stops are unlit. Can I ask that you investigate and look at how this problem might be mitigated?

• Reference: 2012/0077
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 25 January 2012

I have been contacted by constituents who report difficulties experienced by pedestrians attempting to cross the road at the junction of North Hill with Church Road in Highgate. Despite the presence of traffic lights this is a junction which currently lacks any formal pedestrian crossing facilities. A care home, GP surgery, nursery and junior school are all located at this location and there is an understandable fear that uses of these services are at particular risk of harm. I understand that London Borough of Haringey Officers are making representations to Transport for London's signals team regarding the possibility of having...

• Reference: 2012/0076
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 25 January 2012

In light of the Government's planned cuts to the legal aid system, what action are you taking to ensure that ordinary Londoners will continue to be able to access legal advice? Last year you rightly criticised the proposals on domestic violence. Can I therefore take it that defending Londoners from the Government's legal aid cuts is a priority?

• Reference: 2012/0075
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 25 January 2012

Constituents in Waltham Forest have requested that I put the following question to you in relation to Walthamstow Stadium: 1) Why has the Mayor let L&Q board up [Walthamstow Stadium] for the last 3 years plus? All their plans have been withdrawn and by the mayor's own three dragons working kit the stadium shows a 26 million loss to the tax payer if L&Q are allowed to build. 2) L&Q current owners have land banked for 4 years and if they ever build they will cost the tax payer 26 million yet the mayor supports them. Why ? 3) Government...

• Reference: 2012/0074
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 25 January 2012

A Constituent has written to me to express her 'utter disgust' at the recent comments made by Cllr Daniel Moylan's in the Evening Standard on the 6th December where he described Ken Livingstone as 'schizophrenic' for his fares reduction pledge. She writes: As someone who has a close family member who suffers from Schizophrenia, and as sufferer of a mental illness myself, I am aghast that government officials still retain these backward, stigmatising and unhelpful views. I was wondering if you could ask the Mayor the following: 1) will [the Mayor] ask Mr Moylan to apologise for the offence he...

• Reference: 2012/0073
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 25 January 2012

In your Health Inqualities Strategy-First Steps to Delivery Report you commit to raising awareness of availability of responsible financial support for people on low incomes, such as credit unions. As you know credit unions work best when people on all income levels join them. Will you commit to joining your local credit union in order to lead by example and spread the word about credit unions to people on high incomes?

• Reference: 2012/0072
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 25 January 2012

In your Health Inequalities Strategy- First steps to delivery report you commit to working to raise awareness of credit unions. This is very laudable and I fully support this aim. Can you please detail what specific action you have taken personally as Mayor to promote and support community finance in the capital?

• Reference: 2012/0071
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 25 January 2012

Can you provide me with a detailed breakdown by borough of all the co-operative and mutual businesses that the GLA or LDA gave advice/support to in the last 12 months?