• Reference: 2011/2796
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 September 2011

London's FE colleges are being badly hit by a number of funding and policy changes, including the abolition of EMA, the removal of ESOL uplift funding, the change in rules on Fee Remission to those receiving benefits (the 'Active Benefit' changes) and changes to entitlement for reduced fees for those over 25. Collectively these changes risk placing colleges in severe difficulty, and reducing their ability to prepare Londoners for work. What are you doing about this and what representations are you making about it?

• Reference: 2011/2795
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 September 2011

Many different demands and interpretations have been made about the appropriate treatment of young offenders in the London Boroughs following the recent disorder. Can you set out your preferred recipe, both for punishment, and for subsequent treatment of offenders?

• Reference: 2011/2794
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 September 2011

Are you content that the interpretation of the eligibility for riot damage compensation is correct? It is reported that a number of small businesses attacked in the unrest are being denied the right to use this, although their experience was clearly that they suffered damage as the result of the unrest.

• Reference: 2011/2793
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 September 2011

What is the current estimate of the policing costs of the recent disorder and how is this to be funded? Have the Met made additional funding bids to Government and to what extent do you think these might be met?

• Reference: 2011/2792
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 September 2011

If you lose confidence in somebody for whom you are nominally responsible, should you then be reluctant and sorrowful to accept their resignation?

• Reference: 2011/2791
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 September 2011

Are the proposed restrictions and arrangements fair on Londoners?

• Reference: 2011/2790
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 September 2011

Is Team London a City Hall initiative? What are its governance and accountability arrangements?

• Reference: 2011/2789
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 September 2011

Do you fully support 'The People's Promises' that were agreed by your predecessor in 2004?

• Reference: 2011/2788
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 14 September 2011

You announced that half the Safer Neighbourhood Teams across London will lose their dedicated sergeant. Which of the 22 wards in Redbridge will lose theirs?

• Reference: 2011/2787
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 14 September 2011

You announced that half the Safer Neighbourhood Teams across London will lose their dedicated sergeant. Which of the 23 wards in Hillingdon will lose theirs?