Standing up for

London Assembly’s Annual Report 2011-12 Contents

Welcome Brian Coleman Assembly Members what they do? Dee Doocey Holding the Mayor to account Safety and Policing Roger Evans Housing and Planning Transport Darren Johnson Health and Community Jenny Jones London’s Economy Joanne McCartney Environment and Climate Change The 2012 Games Steve O’Connell How the Assembly uses your money Murad Qureshi 2008-12 Members JP Valerie Shawcross Richard Tracey JP Mike Tuffrey Richard Barnbrook Richard Barnes London Assembly - Membership of Committee 2010-11 John Biggs 2008 Election Results Constituency Assembly Members Londonwide Members Turnout and technical information Published reports 2011-12

2|3 London Assembly’s Annual Report 2011-12 Welcome

Welcome to the latest London Assembly the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime Our role Londoners can see and hear what is being annual report, which sets out the work we (MOPC) which, along with the London The London Assembly is a watchdog for done on their behalf. The Assembly has have done over the year to April 2012. The Assembly Police and Crime Committee, London. It holds Mayor and an active programme of engagement with Assembly is required by law to produce this replaced the Metropolitan Police Authority his advisers to account by publicly examining schools, colleges and universities encouraging report but, more importantly, it is a chance (MPA) in January 2012. policies, activities and decisions in key students to come to City Hall to learn about for us to tell Londoners what we have been The remaining sections reflect the priorities areas like policing; housing and planning; their city government and watch it in action doing on your behalf. From our regular Q&A Londoners identified in the GLA’s Annual transport; economic development; health at meetings like Mayor’s Question Time. The sessions with Mayor Boris Johnson and London Survey: safety and policing; and community services; the environment; Assembly also hosts an increasing number of other senior figures in London government, housing and planning; transport; health and and the Olympic and Paralympic Games. visits from overseas delegations who want to to investigating a raft of important London community; London’s economy; environment The Mayor is required to consult Assembly learn more about how London is governed. In issues, to dealing with thousands of and climate change; and the 2012 Games. Members ahead of producing his statutory the past year the Assembly has hosted official Londoners’ concerns, Assembly Members strategies and his £14.7 billion a year budget, visits from China, Denmark, El Salvador, have been your voice at City Hall. This Who we are which includes the GLA portion of your Nigeria, Japan, Vietnam and Wales. The London Assembly is made up of report gives a brief summary of that work council tax. As well as examining the Mayor’s Twice a year Assembly Members and the and how you can find out more about a 25 Members elected by Londoners at the policies through its meetings and committees, same time as the Mayor. Eleven represent the Mayor hold People’s Question Time, giving particular subject. the Assembly directly questions the Mayor Londoners an opportunity to ask them whole of the capital with fourteen elected ten times a year at Mayor’s Question Time. We have grouped our work around eight by constituencies made up of two or three directly what they are doing to improve life subject headings. The first details how . In addition to their City Hall duties Assembly in London. This year’s events were held in the Assembly has looked at the actions Members represented Londoners on three key Hornchurch and Hammersmith. On 1 May 2008 nearly two and a half million of the Mayor and his senior advisers and organisations: the MPA, LFEPA and the LDA. The Mayor has to answer to Londoners at appointees, and examined the finances Londoners cast their vote to elect the third London Assembly since the GLA was Assembly Members are champions for London, the ballot box every four years; the London and performance of the investigating issues that affect everyday life in Assembly’s job is to ensure the Mayor is held Authority (GLA) group, which includes created. The Assembly consisted of eleven Conservative, eight Labour, three Liberal the capital to find ways of improving our city. democratically accountable every day. (TfL), the London Fire The Assembly publishes reports recommending and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) Democrat, two Green and one independent Assembly Members. Biographies of Assembly action by the Mayor, central government, local and the London Development Agency authorities and others. (LDA) which was abolished at the end of Members are on pages 24-33. March 2012. The GLA group also includes All London Assembly meetings are held in public and broadcast on the GLA website so

4|5 London Assembly’s Annual Report 2011-12 Assembly Members what do they do?

The Mayor is the most powerful directly and LFEPA in order to press for improvements in public and publish their findings and which is responsible for running the London elected politician in the UK, so Assembly to services and ensure the organisations are recommendations, making proposals to the Fire Brigade. Members have a key role in holding him to accountable to Londoners. The Mayor sets the Mayor and government organisations about A great deal of an Assembly Member’s work account on behalf of Londoners in between priorities for these ways to improve the capital. A committee takes place in public to ensure the maximum elections. The most visible example of this group organisations, which have a combined may also ask an individual Member to carry amount of transparency and accountability, but is Mayor’s Question Time where the Mayor budget of £14.7bn. The chairs and chief out a special investigation on its behalf, and there is plenty of behind the scenes activity answers to Assembly Members during two and executives of the Olympic Delivery Authority, Assembly Members produce their own reports. too. Assembly meetings and investigations all a half hours of questions in City Hall’s Chamber which gets part of its funding from Londoners’ Assembly Members investigate and publish require preparation with lots of background ten times a year. council tax, the Olympic Park Legacy Company reports on actions and decisions the Mayor research including briefings with experts, site Mayor’s Question Time and other Assembly and the London Organising Committee of the takes, and anything else the Assembly visits and meetings with people who use the meetings provide a public forum for discussing Olympic and Paralympic Games also appear considers to be of importance to Greater services being examined. in front of Assembly Members so they can alternative ideas and challenging policies that London. To help conduct investigations Every year Assembly Members receive affect the daily lives of Londoners. As well monitor preparations for the 2012 Games and the Assembly has the power to summons the legacy they will leave behind. thousands of emails and letters raising concerns as cross-examination during these sessions, documents and relevant people before itself or asking for help in dealing with a particular Assembly Members submit written questions Members propose and vote on motions and its committees. Londoners are also asked problem. Assembly Members take up the case to the Mayor, often at the suggestion raising issues of importance to the capital at for their views on subjects under investigation with the appropriate organisation and press of their constituents. In the last year the Assembly meetings and can agree to petition and these are reflected in Assembly reports for solutions. Sometimes these postbag issues Mayor was asked 4028 questions. Like all the Mayor or organisations within the GLA Assembly Members play an active role in will become the focus of formal Assembly Assembly meetings these sessions are public group on behalf of Londoners. The Assembly organisations that are part of the GLA group. investigations with public meetings to air the so Londoners can stay informed about the also makes the case for London in response Twelve Assembly Members sat on the MPA complaints and question the organisations Mayor’s activities, and the Assembly can to consultations from government and other until it was replaced by the Mayor’s Office for involved, for example the review of the provide public critical challenge and review of organisations whose proposals will have Policing and Crime and the London Assembly accessibility of the transport network in his performance – an established principle of an impact on the capital, for example the Police and Crime Committee in January 2012. London. Assembly Members also spend a lot representative democracies. proposed construction of a High Speed Rail These bodies are responsible for making sure of time outside City Hall meeting constituents Assembly Members also hold regular Link into Euston. that London’s police are accountable for the face to face. discussions with the chairs, chief executives and The Assembly conducts its investigations services they provide to people in the capital. Simply put, the job of an Assembly Member is commissioners of TfL, the Metropolitan Police through committees, which meet regularly Eight Assembly Members serve on LFEPA, to stand up for Londoners.

6|7 London Assembly’s Annual Report 2011-12 Holding the Mayor to Account The Assembly’s primary responsibility is to monitor and review how the Mayor exercises his powers, investigating his actions and decisions and those of his staff, and contribute to the development of policy.

Devolution for London proposals submitted by the Assembly, before Development Agency budgets. The Committee confirming the appointment or a binding one This year has seen significant changes to the Mayor’s Question Time (MQT), held ten times called for a more realistic approach to the about the MOPC if the appointee is not an GLA’s responsibilities and structures as a a year. At MQT, the Mayor is questioned potential for savings within the GLA Group Assembly Member. result of the Localism Act and the Police on a wide range of subjects. Issues raised through sharing services. An ethical GLA Reform and Social Responsibility Act. In over the last year included: the August riots; The Mayor’s advisers The London Assembly has a significant role in March 2012, the GLA took over responsibility public transport fares; housing; road safety; The Mayor can appoint 12 paid staff to act as ensuring the GLA group operates in an ethical for housing and regeneration from the Homes and reducing disruption caused by industrial his advisers and must appoint one Assembly and transparent manner in accordance with and Communities Agency London region and action. Assembly Members also submit Member to be the Deputy . the law and proper standards. The Assembly the London Development Agency. In January, written questions to the Mayor designed to The Mayor may appoint a Deputy Mayor for Audit Panel receives regular reports from the MPA was replaced by the Mayor’s Office obtain information, often at the suggestion Policing and Crime to supervise the operation internal and external auditors and examines for Policing and Crime (MOPC) and the of their constituents. of the MOPC. The Mayor has also chosen the systems in place to ensure proper use of Assembly Police and Crime Committee, which The Mayor’s Budget for 2012/13 to appoint advisers to a number of unpaid Londoners’ money. Assembly Members sit holds the MOPC to account. On 23 February, the Assembly considered posts. The Assembly examines these direct alongside independent members of the GLA With the Assembly’s formal approval, the the Mayor’s 2012/13 £14.7 billion budget for appointees in public about their responsibilities Standards Committee that promotes high Mayor has used new powers to create the the GLA group and a one per cent reduction and specific policy initiatives. standards of conduct by the Mayor, Assembly London Legacy Development Corporation in City Hall’s portion of Londoners’ council Confirmation hearings Members and GLA staff. The Assembly’s which will be responsible for the future tax to £307 for a Band D property. Assembly The Assembly has the power to hold Business Management and Administration development of the Olympic Park and Members proposed three amendments to the confirmation hearings in advance of mayoral Committee monitors staff deployment at City surrounding areas. There has been a change to budget but as none achieved the necessary appointments to key posts at the following Hall and reviews the GLA’s administrative rules how the Mayor produces statutory strategies two-thirds majority the Mayor’s spending plans organisations: TfL; MOPC; LFEPA, Mayoral to ensure they are efficient and transparent. for London, designed to reduce the time it were formally approved unchanged. Development Corporations: London Waste The Assembly and the Mayor jointly appoint takes, while giving the Assembly the right to The Budget and Performance Committee and Recycling Board; London Cultural the GLA’s three Statutory Officers: the veto them if two-thirds of Assembly Members began probing those plans months before, and Strategy Group; and the London Pensions Head of Paid Service, Chief Financial Officer agree to do so. in its response to the draft budget, highlighted Fund Authority. The hearings provide an and Monitoring Officer, who are legally Mayor’s Question Time the changing nature of the GLA budget, opportunity to interview appointees in public responsible for the proper administration The Mayor must present a written report with its capital spending increasing more about their qualifications and fitness for of City Hall. Assembly Members fulfil to the Assembly detailing his decisions and than 100 fold due to the devolution of the the role. The Assembly can then make an similar roles on LFEPA to promote effective the reasons for them, and his responses to Homes and Communities Agency and London advisory recommendation to the Mayor about governance and transparency.

8|9 London Assembly’s Annual Report 2011-12 Safety and Policing The Assembly monitors the performance of those responsible for public safety in the capital, holds the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime to account, and investigates police and crime issues.

Police and Crime Committee The cost of the MOPC at City Hall in October to thank some of Policing in London – the future shape of This year has seen significant changes in the Belts everywhere are being tightened and those who represented the best of London. the Met way London’s policing priorities are set and budgets squeezed, so operating as efficiently In the aftermath of the riots, the Assembly Visible policing is publicly and politically how the Met is held accountable for their as possible is more essential than ever if has examined how the money being popular but an Assembly report warned performance. In January 2012 the Metropolitan public services are to be maintained. That’s provided for regeneration will be spent. The that the desire to see more police on the Police Authority (MPA) was replaced with the why the Budget and Performance Committee Economy, Culture and Sport Committee streets should not be allowed to reduce Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPC), asked the Mayor to cut the costs of running wrote to the Mayor and Secretary of State the Metropolitan Police’s overall capability. responsible for setting priorities and budgets, the MOPC, which are no lower than the MPA for Communities and Local Government It found that increasing the proportion of and the London Assembly Police and Crime it replaced. The Committee found that the emphasising the need for a long-term officers on operational duty risks reducing Committee. The Committee’s job is to ensure MOPC’s costs are not set to reduce over the approach that supports local residents as well the force’s overall effectiveness by cutting these new arrangements are transparent and next three years, while the police service it as rebuilding ruined property. back valuable support roles. subject to visible public challenge as well oversees faces an 8 per cent reduction. The report identified opportunities to find as making recommendations for improving The Mayor has promised the Committee In February the Police and Crime Committee questioned the Metropolitan Police savings by reviewing the size and resources policing in London. The Committee questions he’ll look again at making savings from the given to specialist units which have grown the Metropolitan Police Commissioner and MOPC budget. Commissioner and the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime about the lessons the in a ‘piecemeal’ and inefficient manner since the Deputy Mayor for Policing in public every Riot regeneration funding 2003, leading to duplication. There may be month on a wide range of subjects. It can also police service has learnt from trying to deal The August riots in London left lives and with the riots and the measures they are scope to make savings by using more civilians investigate any issue it considers important to businesses in tatters, shocked many local in support roles. The report argued that policing and crime reduction in London and has putting in place to respond to any similar communities and stretched emergency incidents in the future. political commitments to protect ‘front-line already looked at measures to tackle gang and services to breaking point. Yet for every policing’ mean very little because there is no youth violence and the use of stop and search. example of mindless violence there were shared understanding of what the ‘front line’ inspiring stories of the bravery and dedication is. Such commitments may not therefore of emergency service personnel, council reassure the public. workers and ordinary Londoners doing The Deputy Mayor for Policing welcomed extraordinary things to help their friends, the report’s thoughtful assessment of the neighbours and often people they had never opportunities facing the Met and responded met before. As well as recording its thanks for positively to many of its recommendations. those efforts, the Assembly held a reception

10|11 London Assembly’s Annual Report 2011-12 Housing and Planning The Assembly casts a critical eye over the Mayor’s policies and decisions on strategic planning and housing policy, and pushes for changes that would enhance the capital.

Service charges The Committee made recommendations to Mayor’s housing proposals flexibility, reductions to the affordable A Planning and Housing Committee report help the Mayor incorporate neighbourhood The Assembly urged the Mayor to make the housing budget and benefit caps could mean highlighted issues within the service charges plans within the planning system, and to most of his enhanced housing and planning a significant fall in the number of affordable regime, affecting more than half a million boroughs to help them support community powers, and his control over new budgets homes that can be delivered. Numbers of leaseholders in London. Leaseholders groups. The Committee identified three areas and land assets, to deliver more affordable desperately needed family-sized homes may raised particular problems with the dispute to help communities develop successful plans: homes and focus development on Londoners’ also fall as they are more expensive to build resolution process, transparency, and the groups must be truly representative of local specific needs. In particular, the Mayor and will be less affordable for families when level of consultation about how works are people; have a realistic assessment of their should ensure the delivery of family-sized benefits are capped. homes in developments with a good mix of procured and charged for. The report makes skills and knowledge; and the Mayor, borough Public life in private hands – public space recommendations to a range of bodies – from planners and ward councillors must provide different types of tenure, and use the GLA’s It can be increasingly difficult to know who is central Government to managing agents – support and advice to local groups. new landholdings to encourage developers responsible for what looks like a public area pressing for more information and better to provide larger homes with better energy but is actually privately owned or managed. Bleak houses - private rented housing efficiency and design standards. The consultation, and for more emphasis on A Planning and Housing Committee The Planning and Housing Committee mediation to spare leaseholders the potentially Mayor undertook to act on the Assembly’s called for changes to the planning system to investigation into private rented housing recommendations about overcrowding and costly and time-consuming tribunal process found about a third of properties fail to meet manage the creeping trend towards private when disputes over charges arise. to promote Community Land Trusts in the control of public spaces as it can lead to the ‘decent homes’ standard used in the Housing strategy. Neighbourhood planning social rented sector, and one in three private excessive restrictions or exclusion. The Government wants to give people landlords is considered to be ‘rogue’, leaving The Affordable Rent Model The Committee found that many boroughs genuine power at a local level to shape how tenants at the mercy of poor conditions or The Government is giving housing associations lack explicit policies for managing such areas their neighbourhoods develop, beyond just sudden eviction. London’s boroughs pay more the flexibility to raise rents for new tenants to in new developments, and that people often responding to consultations on planning than £400 million a year to private landlords, provide funding to build affordable homes. A do not get a say on how public space in their applications. The Planning and Housing mostly through housing benefit. Planning and Housing Committee investigation neighbourhoods will be run. The Committee Committee supports this intention, but found that raising enough income through called on the Mayor to develop new planning The Committee’s report urged the Mayor, higher rents to build new homes and setting believes the Mayor and boroughs need to boroughs and central Government to guidance and encourage boroughs to agree make space in London’s existing planning rents at levels people can actually afford will be principles for the management of public areas prioritise bringing properties and landlords particularly difficult in London. regime if the plans are to have a realistic shot up to scratch. It also calls for tenancies of in new developments to ensure that London’s at success. at least five years and tax incentives for The Committee’s report found that while public space is open to all. landlords who improve properties. housing associations welcomed greater

12|13 London Assembly’s Annual Report 2011-12 Transport The Assembly represents the interests of the millions of Londoners and visitors who use the capital’s transport network and examines the policies and performance of Transport for London (TfL).

State of the Underground credit or debit cards do not miss out on the manage congestion in the short and longer- unclear about who to contact or why decisions A Transport Committee investigation used least expensive fares. The Committee also term; fully assess schemes like the lane rental have been made, or thwarted by confusing previously unavailable data to analyse the questioned some of TfL’s assumptions about pilot for roadworks; support the expansion online information. A report by the Transport performance of the Tube. It found that the savings they can make by introducing of car clubs; and look at changes to freight Committee called for TfL to make it easier for despite an overall 25 per cent reduction in the scheme. delivery times. The Committee is particularly customers to find information, including who delays since upgrade work began the five HS2 concerned that lane rental schemes may to contact about a specific complaint or query. months to January 2011 saw the longest While the government’s plans for a new result in higher utility bills if companies pass TfL welcomed the report and said it would period of sustained underperformance on High Speed rail line will cut journey times on the rental costs to customers, while still work on implementing its recommendations. the network since 2003. The report detailed to Birmingham and beyond, the Assembly not reducing the time they spend digging up River services disruption by Tube line and type of delay. is concerned at the impact on the existing London’s roads. The River Thames is a magnificent highway The Committee urged TfL to set out how it transport network and the communities Accessibility running through the heart of London that will improve performance and recommended a through which it passes. The Transport For those with mobility problems, getting could be used more effectively to take some review of industrial relations following a series Committee has asked the Government to: around London can be a real challenge or of the strain off the capital’s crowded of disruptive strikes. In response, TfL agreed look at putting more of the line underground even a physical impossibility. Only around transport system. to regularly publish detailed information about in west London; rethink the terminal at one-quarter of Tube stations and a third of The Transport Committee found that despite individual line performance, which means Euston; and consider the need for a new Tube London’s rail stations have step-free access some recent growth in numbers, four key passengers can now see just how many - or how line to cope with the extra passengers once from street level to platform, and only half of actions are needed if the Mayor’s ambition to few - hours they are losing because of delays. they arrive in London. all bus stops are fully accessible. see passenger journeys on the Thames more Future of ticketing Road congestion The Assembly has urged TfL to prioritise than double to 12 million a year is to become TfL plans to introduce new ‘wave and pay’ More than 10 million journeys are made by improvements at key interchange stations a reality. ticketing which will allow passengers to use private motor vehicle in the capital each day, and to improve information and assistance The Committee wants to see TfL demonstrate contactless bank cards to pay their fares. The nearly 7,000 buses cover around 700 routes, for passengers who have difficulty using the a genuine commitment to river services by Transport Committee has raised questions and almost 90 per cent of London’s freight is network. TfL’s new transport accessibility plan developing a clear strategic plan to drive about these plans, drawing on passenger transported by road. The amount of traffic is reflects the Committee’s recommendations. expansion. Further improvements to piers concerns identified by a Which? survey. predicted to continue to grow significantly and TfL Customer Service are also needed, alongside better publicity, The Committee wants to see the highest current plans may not keep pace. With billions of passengers a year, TfL receives signage, mapping and ticketing to attract possible level of security for the system and A Transport Committee report called on around 10,000 calls and almost half a million more passengers. to ensure that the one in five people without the Mayor and TfL to: set out how they will visits to its website a day. Some passengers are

14|15 London Assembly’s Annual Report 2011-12 Health and Community Young or old, rich or poor, the Assembly works to improve the services all Londoners need to keep themselves and their communities healthy.

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Fuel Poverty The report called for the Government to Public Toilets transport emissions and improving health Fuel poverty affects almost a fifth of London design the Universal Credit to take account of Public toilets are an essential service for information, it outlined further areas where households and contributed to 2,500 excess varying local childcare costs and to recognise Londoners and visitors, and access to them strong action could benefit public health. winter deaths last year, and its getting worse their impact on local authority provision of will be particularly important during the 2012 The Committee also joined the Mayor in an Assembly report found. It recommended 15 hours free nursery care for 3-4 year-olds. Games. Research for the Health and Public urging the Government to devise an effective targeting energy efficiency and insulation The report also urged the Mayor to promote Services Committee found that there are just national plan to deal with nitrogen dioxide. programmes at areas most likely to suffer childcare voucher schemes to employers and 401 local-authority maintained public toilets from fuel poverty. The report included a for to share good practice to in London, supplemented by community Tipping the Scales - obesity mapping tool to identify these areas using improve access to affordable childcare. toilet schemes, operated by 358 businesses. One in five young Londoners are obese, publicly available information and urged But how does anyone know where to find a higher childhood obesity rate than any London Ambulance Service other English region. A Heath and Public energy companies to fund such targeted The London Ambulance Service (LAS) is the those, often poorly advertised, public toilets? programmes. Services Committee investigation revealed busiest in the country, with 1.5 million 999 Alongside recommendations for boosting that childhood obesity costs the capital £7.1 Childcare calls a year and, at a time of cost cutting and numbers of public toilets, including building million a year to treat and could reach almost A Health and Public Services Committee staff reductions, demand is rising. A report them at Crossrail stations, the Committee £111 million each year if today’s youngsters report says action is needed to prevent by the Health and Public Services Committee has published a new data standard for remain obese into adulthood. The Committee London parents being locked out of said that to cope with these challenges, the information on public toilets so that it can be analysed the cost-effectiveness of different employment because of high childcare costs LAS should work more closely with other used by any organisation to spread the word obesity interventions and urged the Mayor – which average £119 a week for a child emergency services to find efficiencies. The about where to find the nearest loo. to develop a London-wide obesity-reduction under two, a third higher than elsewhere in report recommends the LAS share ambulance Air Quality response strategy bringing together public and private the country. stations with the London Fire Brigade. The The Environment Committee called on the sectors. The Mayor responded positively to Parents in London also face more challenges Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime should Mayor to aim even higher in his efforts the report, including outlining plans to take than in other regions because of longer review ambulance calls from the police – last to improve air quality in London if he forward work through the London Health working hours, lengthy commutes and being year 300 ambulances were sent out every is to help reduce the estimated 4,300 Improvement Board, as recommended by the less likely to have family close by to help. The day at police request but only one of these premature deaths linked to pollution each Committee. situation is compounded by local authority was needed to save a life. The Committee year. While welcoming the fact that the budget cuts which mean the closure of also called for the inclusion of a doctor on Mayor’s Air Quality Strategy has adopted affordable nurseries at Children’s Centres in ambulances so that life saving treatment can several improvements recommended by some areas. be given more quickly. the Committee, in areas such as reducing

16|17 London Assembly’s Annual Report 2011-12 London’s Economy The Assembly is concerned to see that London has the means and opportunity to meet the economic challenges that lie ahead.

Whose brand is it anyway? Development Agency has been abolished and volunteering; business support; sport; the The transfer of funding to the new How much is it worth to get a company’s Central Government funding for GLA group Olympics; regeneration; climate change and agency resulted in Visit London going into name on London’s iconic Tube map and economic development projects cut by 85 per the environment. The Committee was also administration, leaving suppliers unpaid and should anyone with enough cash be able to cent for 2012-13 compared to 2009-10. The unconvinced by efforts to make savings by current and ex-employees facing uncertainty put their name to TfL projects? The Budget Mayor is looking for other funding sources, sharing services across the GLA group and over their pension fund. After hearing from and Performance Committee set out to including business rates from London’s first called on the Mayor to set more focused concerned creditors, the Economy, Culture address these questions in its investigation Enterprise Zone, at the Royal Docks, which targets for collaboration between the and Sport Committee held public hearings into TfL sponsorship deals. The Committee will provide a source of funding for the new organisations. Most GLA group organisations into the issue. The investigation found that, found that TfL needs a more consistent and Local Enterprise Partnership from 2013. The are being asked to make significant efficiency in setting up the new agency, decisions were transparent approach to sponsorship. While GLA also plans to borrow £110m over four savings, but such savings have not been made without a detailed understanding recognising sponsorship deals – like those years for regeneration projects. A report by asked for from the newly created Mayor’s of the consequences for pensions and for the cable car and cycle hire scheme – can the Economy, Culture and Sport Committee Office for Policing and Crime (MOPC) that creditors of Visit London. The Committee bring extra investment for new transport called on the Mayor to publish a detailed plan oversees the Met. Its budget is no lower than recommended a re-examination of the infrastructure, the report highlighted the for delivering economic development. It asked that of the Metropolitan Police Authority it funding and governance arrangements for potential ethical and reputational risks to TfL for clarity about how business rate revenue replaced and is not set to reduce for the next London & Partners and called for private of deals with companies like high interest will be spent to help avoid any potential three years. The Committee asked the Mayor organisations that receive the bulk of their lenders. Lack of transparency has also fuelled conflict between the Mayor and London to set out a plan for achieving savings from funding from the Mayor to have the same public speculation and criticism of sponsorship boroughs over money raised in one part of the original budget for the MOPC. rules on transparency and accountability agreements with Barclays and Emirates. London being spent elsewhere in the capital. Administration of Visit London as the GLA. As a result of the Committee’s The report called on TfL to conduct deals GLA Budget Tourism has a significant role in London’s action, suppliers to Visit London were paid openly and show it can effectively manage The GLA group will spend £14.7 billion in economy with more than 25 million visitors what they were owed and the pension fund both the benefits and risks of using private 2012-13, primarily on transport, policing, a year generating millions of pounds for the was rescued. sponsorship to fund projects. the fire service and investment in housing. capital and supporting tens of thousands Mayor’s role in economic development In assessing the Mayor’s spending plans, of jobs. In April 2011, responsibility for This year’s changes to the GLA group and the Budget and Performance Committee promoting London as the world’s top tourist its funding will have a significant impact on highlighted areas of GLA responsibility destination was reorganised with a new how the Mayor delivers his plans for London’s where details of funding were unclear, agency, London & Partners, taking over from economic development. The London including: skills and employment; youth and Visit London.

18|19 London Assembly’s Annual Report 2011-12 Environment and Climate Change The Assembly’s work focuses on making London a more desirable and sustainable place to live, work and relax.

Electric Vehicles in London a home to wildlife and is seen by residents Waste not, want not rainfall found it is only by chance that London There are currently a little over 2,300 electric as a barrier to the noise and dust of passing It’s a sad fact that parts of London lag far has escaped rainfall severe enough to cause vehicles in London - only two percent of the trains. However, an Assembly report found behind the best performers in recycling widespread flooding. It recommended actions way towards the Mayor’s goal of 100,000. that some residents and local boroughs felt our rubbish. While that’s often blamed on to reduce the risk of flooding and ensure An Environment Committee investigation work to manage trackside land was excessive the difficulties of recycling in blocks of people living in high-risk areas are informed found that while progress had been made or drastic, especially when mature trees were flats, an Assembly investigation found such about preventative action. since 2009, when the Mayor committed to removed. The report said that while Network barriers can be overcome, with some London Branching out - future for street trees making London the electric car capital of Rail and TfL have good policies in place by boroughs recycling double the average for Street trees are a much-loved part of London’s Europe, there is considerable distance to go for managing trackside vegetation, they need flats and estates. As well as learning from the landscape. Since the Assembly first highlighted to deliver that ambition. The Committee’s to get better at giving local residents more best performers, the report recommended their importance to the capital four years report found there are currently around specific detail about maintenance work. boroughs publish data about the value of ago, numbers have held up, partly thanks 400 charge points in the capital, with a Plugging the Energy Gap recycling annually and urged the Mayor to to the Mayor’s Street Trees programme, target to reach 1300 by 2013, while there Many old, polluting power stations are coming promote schemes that reward communities which has delivered an extra 10,000 trees are fewer than 50 electric vehicles in the to an end of their working life and will have to for increasing recycling. The Assembly also in priority areas. However, an Assembly GLA fleet compared to the Mayor’s aim of be replaced if energy needs are to be met. This examined whether using a system of penalties investigation found that the future for street 1000 by 2015. The Committee warned that is anticipated to cost around £200 billion over and rewards could get people to recycle trees looks uncertain because wider budget the Mayor’s current electric vehicles plan will the next decade, raising the prospect of higher more. While some schemes had boosted pressures could result in fewer new trees deliver environmental benefits too slowly energy bills in the future. An Environment recycling the report found that there’s no being planted and excessive extreme pruning and called for an updated version, clarifying Committee report said the Government should one size fits all solution and that they need is still happening. There was also concern targets and setting out timescales for support the capital’s efforts to generate more careful design to address London-specific that Re:leaf, the replacement for the Mayor’s implementing the charging network. of its own heat and power to help reduce the issues like the large numbers of people successful Street Trees programme, involves Railway Embankments UK’s ‘energy gap’. It recommended that district regularly moving home. smaller community grants and will rely on Much of London’s 450 miles of train tracks heating schemes, which can efficiently heat For a Rainy Day – flooding partners working together to attract funds. are bordered by trees and plants that amount thousands of homes, should be eligible for Lives lost, homes ruined, businesses and jobs to 10 per cent of all the green spaces in the existing subsidies and that local generation destroyed – the costs of a major flood in capital. While this trackside vegetation needs projects being set up in the capital should London could be catastrophic and run into to be controlled to prevent the dreaded be part of back-up plans for shortfalls in the billions of pounds. An Assembly investigation ‘leaves on the line’ delays, it also provides electricity supply. into the risks of flooding as a result of severe

20|21 London Assembly’s Annual Report 2011-12 The 2012 Games The Assembly conducts detailed analysis of preparations for the Games and monitors how the promised long-term benefits will be delivered.

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Sold out? transport network. A Transport Committee Committee investigation highlighted key to the new London Legacy Development It has been a frustrating time for many investigation found a lot of good preparation issues to be addressed if that promise is to Corporation (LLDC) established by the Mayor would-be spectators keen to get their work has been done to try to keep London be delivered for Games time and beyond, in April with Assembly approval. The LLDC hands on precious Olympic tickets. It was moving but it identified a number of key including high environmental standards for has responsibility for the future development always going to be impossible to satisfy the risks including the challenge of persuading both construction and building operation as not just of the Olympic Park itself but also overwhelming demand for many events and Londoners to alter their normal travel the park is converted from Games to legacy a significant area on its boundaries. In it is an undoubted sign of success that Games patterns, upgrade of the Jubilee Line, and mode; maximum use of lower-carbon energy approving the creation of the LLDC, the tickets are so popular. But the Economy, the significant impact of reserving road space generation; and transparent information Assembly urged the Mayor to ensure it takes Culture and Sport Committee condemned exclusively for the ‘Olympic family’. about any remaining contamination proper account of the wishes of local people, unnecessary secrecy surrounding ticketing Jobs for the Games which could impact on food growing. The particularly when making planning decisions. arrangements, as the London Organising An army of a hundred thousand caterers, Committee expects detailed plans for turning The Assembly will play an active role in Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic cleaners, security guards and hospitality grand policy promises into practical reality. examining the performance of the LLDC and Games (LOCOG) refused to provide a detailed hosts will be needed to keep the Games on London’s Legacy in making sure that it acts in a transparent breakdown of how many tickets have been track. While these will be short-term jobs, Visit Herne Hill and you can see the 1948 fashion so that Londoners know what is being sold at what price for each event. The an Economy Culture and Sport Committee London Olympics’ last remaining finals venue. done in their name. Committee continues to press LOCOG to report set out how they can be used to The velodrome is still used for top quality release the information, stating that the lack help improve the skills and experience of racing but also provides the opportunity of transparency is unacceptable given the unemployed Londoners. The report made for people to get their first taste of track billions of public money spent to host the detailed recommendations to JobCentre Plus, cycling - it’s where gold medallist Bradley 2012 Olympics and Paralympics. LOCOG, the Mayor and the host boroughs to Wiggins got started. That’s exactly the kind 2012 Transport ensure this unique opportunity benefits as of legacy London needs from the sparkling Whether you’ve got a ticket or not, travelling many local people as possible. new 2012 venues. In its latest work on the in London during the summer could be an A sustainable Olympic park legacy, the Assembly set out a vision for a Olympic sport of its own as 5.3 million people London’s bid to host the 2012 Games sustainable future for the Olympic Park as a are expected to attend the Games. This promised they would be ‘the greenest ever’, single integrated visitor attraction, available means more than a million Olympic-related transforming a poisonous industrial wasteland for elite athletes yes, but also open to the journeys during the nine busiest days that will into the biggest new city park Europe public at least 80 per cent of the time. inevitably put a strain on the entire London has seen in a century. An Environment The task of delivering that legacy will fall

22|23 London Assembly’s Annual Report 2011-12 How the Assembly uses your money Constituency Assembly Members

The Greater London Authority is paid for by received £1.4 million from the Assembly’s Enfield and Haringey a levy on London council tax bills (the GLA £8.0 million budget in 2011/12. Joanne McCartney AM precept), grants from central government and Four fifths of the Assembly budget was other bodies, and income from interest, sales, Barnet and spent on staff costs and salaries, £6.4 Camden fees and charges. Brian Coleman million a year. The twenty-five Assembly AM In 2011/12 the GLA precept for a Band D Members have direct support from assistants Brent and Harrow Havering and property was £310 a year. Most of the £935 and researchers, helping to respond to Navin Shah AM Redbridge North East million raised by the precept was spent on the correspondence from Londoners, following Jennette Roger Evans Arnold AM AM Metropolitan Police Service and the London up constituents’ complaints and concerns City and East Fire Brigade. The London Assembly’s budget about services, and examining the Mayor’s Ealing and Hillingdon John Biggs AM Richard Barnes AM West Central was £8.0 million, costing Band D council proposals and policies. The Assembly as a Kit Malthouse AM Lambeth taxpayers less than £3 a year – or just over £1 whole has a team of officers arranging and and for every Londoner. The Assembly’s budget supporting its public meetings, researching Southwark Greenwich and Valerie Lewisham South West for 2012-13 will be £7.7 million; this includes and drafting Assembly reports, publicising its Shawcross Len Duvall AM Tony Arbour AM provision for support for the new Police and work and organising events. AM Crime Committee, which the Assembly is Merton and The remainder of the Assembly’s budget paid Wandsworth legally required to establish. Richard for the occasional use of external research, Tracey AM Bexley and Bromley Nearly one fifth of the Assembly’s budget to provide information for investigations, James Cleverly AM funds London TravelWatch, which deals with and the usual requirements for a busy office Croydon and Sutton Stephen O’Connell specific complaints from public transport including printing, IT equipment, postage and AM users in London. London TravelWatch telephones. Conservative Labour

2011/12 2012-13 £’000 £’000 Assembly Members pay 1,745 1,745 Londonwide Assembly Members Whole Assembly by Party group Assembly Member support 2,356 2,286 Scrutiny and Investigations 1,065 1,209 Committee and Legal Services 519 519 External Relations 311 311 Director/business support 499 453 Elections and Special Projects 54 18 London TravelWatch 1,443 1,203 Total 7,992 7,74 4 Conservative 3 Conservative 11 Liberal Democrat 3 Labour 8 Labour 2 Liberal Democrat 3 Green 2 Green 2 Independent 1 Independent 1

24|25 London Assembly’s Annual Report 2011-12 2008-12 London Assembly Members to local government and the community of exhibited, taught and lectured in Art both in London. the UK and Europe.

Tony Arbour JP Jennette Arnold Gareth Bacon In 2005, Richard stood for the parliamentary Conservative Labour Conservative constituency of Barking for the British National Party, and in 2006 he was elected Constituency Constituency Constituency on to Barking and Dagenham Council and South West London North East Londonwide became Group Leader of the BNP official 2011-12 GLA responsibilities: (Hackney, Islington and Waltham Forest) 2011-12 GLA responsibilities opposition on the council. Member of the Business Management and 2011-12 GLA responsibilities Member of the Environment Committee; In May 2008 Richard was elected as a Administration Committee; Confirmation Chair of the London Assembly; Chair of the Police and Crime Committee; Budget Londonwide Member of the Assembly. In Hearings Committee; Economy, Culture and Business Management and Administration and Performance Committee and Budget August 2010 Richard resigned the whip of Sport Committee; Planning and Housing Committee; Member of the Police and Crime Monitoring Sub-Committee.; Member of the the British National Party and now sits as an Committee; Police and Crime Committee and Committee. London Fire & Emergency Planning Authority. Independent Member. Standards Committee; Member of the London Biography Biography Fire and Emergency Planning Authority. Richard Barnes Jennette Arnold OBE AM has been a Gareth has been a Councillor in the London Conservative Biography member of the London Assembly since 2000. Borough of Bexley since 1998, where he Tony was a senior lecturer and Honorary Jennette’s work focuses on issues that impact represents Longlands Ward. During his Constituency Visiting Fellow at Kingston University directly on the lives of her constituents – time on Bexley Council, Gareth has served Ealing and Hillingdon Business School and is a former Governor improved transport services, crime reduction as Vice Chairman of the Town Planning 2011-12 GLA responsibilities: of the university. He is a member of the and affordable housing. She is also a Committee (1998 - 2002), Deputy Mayor Employment Tribunals of and Wales. Appointed as Deputy Mayor for London champion in the fight against any form of (2001-2002) and Shadow Cabinet Spokesman by Boris Johnson with responsibilities Tony was GLC member for Surbiton between injustice and discrimination. for Environment, Transport & Regeneration for Communities, Social Cohesion, Social (2003 - 2006). Following the 2006 1983 and 1986. He was first elected a Jennette continues to work hard in Inclusion, Equalities including Disabilities and London local elections he was appointed councillor for Hampton Wick in 1971. He is a securing the promised legacy from the Responsible Procurement; Member of the Cabinet Member for the Environment. He councillor in London Borough Richmond upon 2012 Games for local people - increased Business Management and Administration was Conservative candidate for the GLA Thames and was Leader of Richmond Council skills and employment together with the Committee and Health and Public Services constituency of Greenwich & Lewisham in 2002-2006. transformation of a part of London that was Committee. 2004. He is married with one daughter. Tony Arbour is a Justice of the Peace and desolate and contaminated. As a member of Biography Assistant Chairman of the Richmond upon the Metropolitan Police Authority she has Richard Barnbrook Formerly a Leader of Hillingdon Council, Thames Bench. focused on police accountability; community Independent Richard has been a Member of the London He was vice-chairman of Kingston & relations; and increased support for victims Assembly representing Ealing and Hillingdon and witnesses of crime. Constituency Richmond Family Health Services Authority. Londonwide since May 2000. He has been a member of Hillingdon Council since 1982 and is currently He has a vast historical and local knowledge She was Chair of the London Assembly in 2008/9 and, under the previous mayoral 2011-12 GLA responsibilities ward councillor for Harefield, where he lives. of South West London. He has four children, Member of the Audit Panel, Health and and has been a parent governor at local administration, chaired the London Cultural He has a degree in economics from the Strategy Group, which helped bring the Public Services Committee and Budget schools. Hobbies include collecting first Monitoring Sub-Committee. University of Wales, and speaks Norwegian, editions, carbooting, and ebaying. Olympic Games to London. She was also Danish, Swedish and French. Chair of the London Health Commission, Biography campaigning successfully for national Richard was born in Catford, South East Richard served on the Metropolitan Police legislation to ensure a smoke free London. London in 1961, is a graduate of the Royal Authority from 2000 to 2008, and was Academy of Arts and has studied extensively Deputy Chair between 2000 and 2004. On In 2010 Jennette was awarded the OBE in the the London Assembly, he has been a member Queen’s birthday honours list for her services at postgraduate level in America and the Far East. Prior to entering politics, Richard of the Health Committee, Audit Panel and was leader of the Conservative Group. 26|27 London Assembly’s Annual Report 2011-12 Throughout his career in local government, London and is a Governor of Birkbeck College, the scrutiny of the use of DNA in policing, of the London Fire and Emergency Planning Richard has maintained a keen interest University of London. ‘Protecting the innocent’. Authority. in financial structures and processes, and A proven campaigner, Victoria worked for the Biography ensuring value for money. Andrew Boff Conservative OPEN EUROPE Think Tank campaigning to Brian is the Assembly Member for Barnet Richard chaired the 7 July Review Committee, raise awareness on the issue of a European and Camden and has served on Barnet the only public inquiry into the 7 July 2005 Constituency constitution and European regulations. Prior to Council since 1998. He was Mayor of Barnet bombings in London, the report of which Londonwide this she worked in the Treasurer’s Department from 2009-10 and is the Cabinet Member has been downloaded over 170,000 times 2011-12 GLA responsibilities at the Conservative Party Headquarters, and for Environment. He is the Chairman of since publication. He also produced a report Member of the Economy, Culture and Sport has held senior management positions at the the London Fire and Emergency Planning promoting business continuity to small Committee; Health and Public Services P&O Group. Authority (LFEPA) and was Vice Chairman for businesses entitled ‘Prepared For The Worst?’ Committee; Planning and Housing Committee; several years. Brian was the first Conservative and Budget and Performance Committee; James Cleverly Chairman of the Assembly in 2004/05 and John Biggs Member of the Time for Action Panel. Conservative was re-elected to this office for 2006/07. Labour Constituency Brian is deeply committed to his local Biography community in Barnet, as a governor of a local Constituency Andrew Boff has been a councillor in Bexley and Bromley City and East London secondary school, a committee member of Hillingdon (1982-1994) and Hackney (2005- 2011-12 GLA responsibilities the Friends of Finchley Memorial Hospital 2011-12 GLA responsibilities 2006). Member of the Environment Committee; and a Trustee of the Finchley Charities, Chair of Budget and Performance Committee He is an active member of the Broadway Police and Crime Committee and the Business which provides homes for over 300 elderly and Budget Monitoring Sub-Committee; Market Traders’ and Residents’ Association. Management and Administration Committee; residents. He is a member of Conservative Member of the Business Management and Member of the Time for Action Panel; Board Friends of Israel, and an active Methodist. Administration Committee, Confirmation He produces EASTeight magazine, a hyper Member of the London Development Agency; Hearings Committee; Police and Crime local publication that aims to promote Chairman of the London Waste and Recycling Dee Doocey Committee and Economy, Culture and Sport bottom-up economic development. Board; Leader of the Conservative Group. Liberal Democrat Committee; Deputy Chair Labour Group; Biography Labour Group Whip. Victoria Borwick Constituency Conservative James comes from a background in web and Londonwide Biography print publishing. He has a business degree from Now in his third term as Assembly Member for Constituency Thames Valley University and before being 2011-12 GLA responsibilities: City and East London, John is a former Leader Londonwide elected was the co-founder of a company that Deputy Chair of the London Assembly; of Tower Hamlets. A graduate of Chemistry, 2011-12 GLA responsibilities runs websites helping entrepreneurs and small Chair of the Economy, Culture and Sport Computer Science and of Law, John previously Chair of the Health and Public Services businesses grow and develop. Committee. worked as an analyst in the City and as director Committee; Member of the Police and For over 15 years James has been an officer in Biography of a political pressure group. Crime Committee; Economy, Culture and the Territorial Army, rising to the rank of Major, Dee Doocey has been an elected member He leads on budget for the Labour Group on Sport Committee; Standards Committee and and until 2005 was the Officer Commanding of the London Assembly since 2004 and the London Assembly and represented the Transport Committee. 266 (Para) Battery Royal Artillery (Volunteers). was Chair of the Assembly in 2010-11. Assembly on the London Health Commission. Biography For six years, Dee chaired the Assembly’s He has a keen interest in regeneration and has Victoria was born in London and has lived and Brian Coleman Economic Development, Culture, Sport and played a major role in the Thames Gateway worked here all her life. Married to Jamie, they Conservative Tourism Committee (the lead committee project. He was previously Vice Chair of the have four children; she has been a Kensington for monitoring and reporting on the 2012 Constituency Olympic Games). Dee was also a member of London Development Agency and Deputy and Chelsea Councillor since 2002, and is Barnet and Camden Chairman of the London Thames Gateway chairman of Borough Community Relations. the Metropolitan Police Authority, chaired Development Corporation. John is an On the MPA, as Chairman of the Civil Liberties 2011-12 GLA responsibilities: the MPA’s Olympic and Paralympic sub- Honorary Fellow of Queen Mary University of Panel, she led the scrutiny of public order Member of the Business Management committee and is a member of the Home policing ‘Responding to G20’ and has chaired and Administration Committee and the Office’s Olympic Security Board. Confirmation Hearings Committee; Chairman 28|29 London Assembly’s Annual Report 2011-12 In November 2010, Dee was awarded a life • Former Vice-Chair of the Local Government advises women-2-win, a group dedicated to Agency and the C40: Large Cities Climate peerage as Baroness Doocey, and sits on the Information Unit increasing the number of female Conservative Leadership Group. Liberal Democrat benches in the House of • Founder member of the New Local Members of Parliament. Lords. Government Network. Darren Johnson Roger is a published author, with his book Green From 1986 until 1994, Dee was an elected • Founder member and Chair of Thames Gremal Quest printed in 2007. His passion councillor for the London Borough of Gateway London Partnership for London led him to complete the 75-mile Constituency Richmond upon Thames, where she was • Former Chair of the Improvement and Capital Ring Walk around outer London. He Londonwide Chair of the Housing Committee. Dee Development Agency for Local Government maintains a relationship with constituents and • Former Non–executive Director of 2011-12 GLA responsibilities was previously Finance Director of the transport users through his blog, www.city- Deputy Chair of the Environment Committee; Liberal Democrat party, a management Millennium Experience Ltd hall.blogspot.com. • Former member of the Council of Europe Member of the Business Management and consultant, and Group Managing Director Administration Committee and the Budget of an international fashion company with and Chamber of the Regions Nicky Gavron • 1998 – 2005 Chair of the Commonwealth and Performance Committee; Member of operations in London, Hong Kong and Labour the London Fire and Emergency Planning China. However she gave up her business Local Government Forum • He was awarded an OBE for his Constituency Authority. interests when she was elected to the London Londonwide Assembly in 2004 in order to concentrate full contribution to London Local Government. Biography time on her London Assembly duties. Roger Evans 2011-12 GLA responsibilities: Darren was elected to the London Assembly Conservative Deputy Chair of the Planning and Housing in May 2000 and has also served as a Green Len Duvall Committee; Member of the Environment councillor in Lewisham since 2002. Constituency Labour Committee and the Health and Public As Chair of the Assembly’s Environment Havering and Redbridge Services Committee. Constituency Committee, Darren has led Assembly Greenwich and Lewisham 2011-12 GLA responsibilities Biography investigations into a range of topics including: Chair of the Audit Panel; Member of the Nicky has been an elected politician since flood risk in London, water shortages, 2011-12 GLA responsibilities Budget and Performance Committee, 1986 and has a track record in urban policy Heathrow expansion and the loss of London’s Leader of the Labour Group; Deputy Chair of Transport Committee, Confirmation Hearings development for every level of government. street trees. He has also promoted measures the Economy, Culture and Sport Committee; Committee and Environment Committee. In particular, she has been at the forefront of to address low pay in the capital through a Member of the Business Management and developing integrated and sustainable land- London Living wage and policies to protect Administration Committee, Budget and Biography Born in in 1964, Roger Evans use, transport and environmental planning vital local services. Performance Committee, Confirmation policies for London. In 2000, she became the Hearings Committee and Standards moved to London in 1987 and was elected to Darren served as Chair of the London Waltham Forest council in 1990. He became first statutory , a Assembly (2009-10) and Deputy Chair Committee; Member of the Time for Action post she held for seven years. Panel. the youngest ever leader of the Conservative (2008-9). group in 1994 – a post he held for four years. In this role, she worked closely with Mayor Darren was born in 1966 and lives in Biography Livingstone to set up the Greater London Before becoming a politician Len worked in Having worked for the Royal Mail in various Lewisham with his partner, Dean. He is a roles for ten years, Roger funded himself Authority’s working processes and policy graduate of Goldsmiths College, University of local government and the voluntary sector. frameworks, with particular responsibility for • 1990 – 2001 Member of Greenwich Council through a law degree, being called to The Bar London. in 1997. He is a member of the Honourable the and climate change. She also • 1990 – 1992 Deputy Leader of Greenwich played a central role in shaping the agenda Council Society of the Middle Temple and was a Jenny Jones legal advisor to the IT recruitment company for women and established the GLA’s Children Green • 1992 – 2000 Leader of Greenwich Council and Young People’s Unit. • Former Deputy Chair of the Association of Spring.com until his election to the London Constituency London Government Assembly. Leading London’s response to climate change, Londonwide • Former member of the London Fire Roger is a member of both Havering she introduced policies and programmes to reduce C02 emissions across energy, water, 2011-12 GLA responsibilities: Authority. Council and the London Thames Gateway Leader of the Green Group; Chair of the Development Corporation Board. He waste and transport. Her initiatives include establishing the London Climate Change Planning and Housing Committee; Member of 30|31 London Assembly’s Annual Report 2011-12 the Confirmation Hearings Committee; Police future of the Post Office network, and access for Finance by Sir Simon Milton, the council issues such as strong policing and improved and Crime and Transport Committee. to mental health services. Leader. During the five years he remained public transport across the capital. Biography As a member of the Transport Committee she in this job he increased council reserves by Caroline was a councillor in Southwark for 12 Jenny lives in Southwark and was a undertook an investigation into cycle parking more than £50m, delivered one of the lowest years from 1998 to 2010, holding a range of Southwark councillor, 2006-10. In the in London, resulting in the report ‘Stand and council tax levels in the country, and was part posts including Deputy Leader of Southwark previous Mayoral administration she was the Deliver’. of the team that kept Westminster at the top Council, and Executive Member for Children’s of the league tables throughout. Mayor’s Green Transport Advisor, advising She is currently the Labour lead on policing Services and Education. Caroline was a him on sustainable forms of transport. She and is Chair of the Time for Action panel Steve O’Connell member of the London Fire and Emergency was also Chair of London Food, a Mayoral investigating the Mayor’s strategy to tackle Conservative Planning Authority 2008 to 2010 was a body looking at ways of giving Londoners serious youth violence. member of the Metropolitan Police Authority fresher, healthier and more affordable food Constituency between 2008 and 2012. while minimising its environmental impact. Joanne has three children and is chair of Croydon and Sutton governors at her local primary school. Caroline has been involved in a number of Jenny is an ex-archaeologist, former Deputy 2011-12 GLA responsibilities voluntary and charitable organisations such as Mayor of London, former Chair of the Member of the Transport Committee; Police a Director of Southwark Energy Agency from Green Party of England and Wales, and was Kit Malthouse Conservative and Crime Committee and the Planning and 1998 until 2001, a board member of named in 2004 as one of 200 ‘women of Housing Committee. Aylesbury New Deal for Communities 2002 to achievement’ by Buckingham Palace. Constituency 2004 and a Board Member of Lambeth and West Central Biography Joanne McCartney Steve has been a Croydon Councillor for Southwark Housing Association 2002 and Labour 2011-12 GLA responsibilities Kenley since 2002 and was Deputy Leader of 2010. She has been a trustee of the Centre Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime; the Council. for Literacy in Primary Education since 2005.. Constituency Member of the Confirmation Hearings Enfield and Haringey Committee. Steve is a south Londoner who studied Murad Qureshi at Brockley Grammar School and who is a Labour 2011-12 GLA responsibilities Biography lifelong Crystal Palace supporter. An animal Chair of the Time for Action Panel; Member of After completing his degree in politics and lover, he shares his life with five dogs and Constituency the Transport Committee and Police and Crime economics at Newcastle, Kit qualified as a Louis the cat. He’s also married to Michele Londonwide Committee. Chartered Accountant with an international with grown up children. 2011-12 GLA responsibilities firm in the City of London. Since then Kit’s Biography In the 2008 GLA Election Steve nearly Chair of the Environment Committee; Joanne was elected as the London Assembly life has been split between his family, his Member of the Budget and Performance business and London politics. doubled the Conservative majority. He has a Member for Enfield and Haringey in June particular interest in crime and safety, plus Committee, Transport Committee and 2004. In 1998 he was elected to Westminster community cohesion as well as protecting our Standards Committee ; Member of the Previously Joanne was called to the bar in City Council. Kit’s first major job on the environment and green spaces. He is also a London Fire and Emergency Planning 1990 and served as a local councillor in Enfield council was to head up the Social Services firm advocate for social mobility. Authority; Chair of the London Waterways from 1998-2006. During this time she served department, dealing with the elderly, Commission; Member of the Heathrow as Chair of Enfield’s Early Years Development disabled, children and vulnerable people. Caroline Pidgeon Airport Consultative Committee. and Childcare Partnership and as a Director of During his time in the department he initiated Liberal Democrat Biography Millfield House and Theatre. a number of radical policy initiatives, most Constituency Murad was elected to the London Assembly notably more than halving the number of Joanne has previously served as Chair of Londonwide as a Labour party list member in 2004 and street homelessness in the city, and steered re-elected on 1 May 2008. Murad grew up the London Assembly Health and Public the department towards achieving the 2011-12 GLA responsibilities Services Committee and led investigations in north west and central London where he highest marks in the country from the Social Caroline was elected as a Liberal Democrat attended his local comprehensive school into a number of issues which are important to Services Inspectorate. Member of the London Assembly in May Londoners including: the decline of London’s before receiving a degree from the University 2008 becoming Group Leader in 2010, and of East Anglia and an MSc in Environmental public toilets; breast cancer screening; the Kit was then elected as Deputy Leader of the has a strong track record of campaigning on Council and was appointed Cabinet member Economics from University College London. 32|33 London Assembly’s Annual Report 2011-12 Murad worked in Housing and Regeneration serving as the Executive Member for Harrow Richard Tracey JP Mike Tuffrey for 15 years establishing housing associations Council of Racial Equality, is a member of the Conservative Liberal Democrat and co-ops in the East End in response to Ethnic Minority Taskforce and a Governor of Constituency Constituency chronic housing needs. He was also an Glebe School. In 2006, he received an Asian Merton and Wandsworth Londonwide Executive Committee member of SERA (1994- Achievers Award. 2011-12 GLA responsibilities 2011-12 GLA responsibilities 2000) campaigning on green issues and a A member of the Co-Operative Society and former member of the Member of the Budget and Performance Deputy Chair of the Budget and Performance the Fabian Society, Navin remains especially Committee, the Budget Monitoring Sub- Committee; Member of the Audit Panel, Council (1998-2006) representing the interested in community cohesion and neighbourhoods he grew up in. Committee and the Transport Committee; Police and Crime Committee, Environment planning, regeneration and housing. He lives Vice-Chairman of the London Fire and Committee and Planning and Housing Murad is a Board Member of BRAC UK, an in Harrow with his wife Rekha, also a Harrow Emergency Planning Authority; Mayor’s Committee; Member of the London Fire and International NGO that seeks to alleviate councillor and his two grown-up children. In Ambassador for River Transport. Emergency Planning Authority. poverty and empower the poor in the UK his spare time, Navin enjoys art, music, travel and abroad. and photography. Biography Biography Richard Tracey was MP for Surbiton for 14 Professionally, Mike is a chartered accountant As an avid sportsman Murad enjoys cricket Valerie Shawcross years and an Environment Minister in the and set up a successful management and football and continues to play for local Labour Thatcher government. He also served as a consultancy business advising large pub teams. He has campaigned for more senior member of the House of Commons companies how to be more socially and open spaces and playing fields in London Constituency Lambeth and Southwark Public Accounts Committee. environmentally responsible. Previously he and looks forward to London hosting the worked in the charity sector. Olympics in 2012. 2011-12 GLA responsibilities He is a Justice of the Peace and Freeman of Deputy Chair of the Transport Committee; the City of London. He was also Chairman In public service, Mike was first elected in Navin Shah Member of the Confirmation Hearings of Wandsworth Conservatives from 2003 to 1985 to the GLC representing Vauxhall. From Labour Committee and Police and Crime Committee. . 2008. 1990 to 2002 he was an elected member of Lambeth Council and served for eight Constituency Biography In 2006, he became Sport England Chair for Brent and Harrow South London. He takes an active interest years as Liberal Democrat Group Leader, Valerie has a BA in Politics and an MA including four years as a joint council leader 2011-12 GLA responsibilities in Education. She has worked for the in rowing and rugby football as President of both Kingston Amateur Regatta and when the Liberal Democrats were the largest Deputy Chair of the Audit Panel and the Inner London Education Authority, the party without overall control. Elected to Health and Public Services Committee; Commonwealth Secretariat and as Head of Kingston RFC, and is a former current affairs broadcaster with BBC Television and Radio. the London Assembly in 2002, Mike led the Member of the Planning and Housing Public Affairs for the National Federation of Liberal Democrat Group from 2006 to 2010 Committee; Member of the London Fire and Women’s Institutes. She is a former Labour Born in Stratford upon Avon and educated and is currently the Group’s spokesperson Emergency Planning Authority. Party National Women’s Officer. She was a at King Edward VI Grammar School and on budget matters, housing, planning Additional information Croydon councillor between 1994 and 2000, Birmingham University where he gained an and the environment. He also represents An architect by profession, Navin came serving as Leader (1997-2000). Valerie was LLB with Honours, he and his wife Kathy live the Assembly on the London Sustainable to the UK as a University College London awarded a CBE in 2002. She was elected in central Wandsworth and have four grown Development Commission. scholar in 1973. He worked as an Architect to the Assembly in 2000 and between up children. 2000-2008 she chaired the London Fire In his personal life, Mike supports several and Development Planner and joined the community, civil liberties and environmental Labour party in 1977 after becoming involved and Emergency Planning Authority (which runs London Fire Brigade). Valerie lives in causes and lives in Clapham with his young in Community Action groups in Brent and family. Harrow. Elected as a Harrow councillor for Upper Norwood, SE19, and has been a south Kenton East Ward in 1994, Navin was Leader London resident for 30 years of Harrow Council from 2004 to 2006, and remained the Harrow Labour Group Leader until June 2008. He is a founder member and trustee of the Harrow Anti-Racist Alliance,

34|35 London Assembly’s Annual Report 2011-12 London Assembly – Membership of Committees 2011-12

Audit Panel Membership Business Management and Administration Committee Membership

Proportionality Party Name Proportionality Party Name 1 Cons (Cons) Roger Evans (Chair) 4 Cons (Cons) Richard Barnes 1 Lab (Lab) Navin Shah (Deputy Chair) (Cons) Tony Arbour 1 Lib Dem (Lib Dem) Mike Tuffrey AM (Cons) James Cleverly 1 unallocated (unallocated) Richard Barnbrook (Cons) Brian Coleman 3 Lab (Lab) Jennette Arnold (Chair) Budget and Performance Committee Membership (Lab) Len Duvall (Lab) John Biggs Proportionality Party Name 1 Lib Dem (Lib Dem) Caroline Pidgeon (Deputy Chair) 4 Cons (Cons) Andrew Boff 1 Green (Green) Darren Johnson (Cons) Richard Tracey (Cons) Gareth Bacon (Cons) Roger Evans Confirmation Hearings Committee* Membership 3 Lab (Lab) John Biggs (Chair) Proportionality Party Name (Lab) Len Duvall 4 Cons (Cons) Tony Arbour (Lab) Murad Qureshi (Cons) Roger Evans 1 Lib Dem (Lib Dem) Mike Tuffrey (Deputy Chair) (Cons) Brian Coleman 1 Green (Green) Darren Johnson (Cons) Kit Malthouse 3 Lab (Lab) Len Duvall Budget Monitoring Sub-committee Membership (Lab) John Biggs (Lab) Valerie Shawcross Proportionality Party Name 1 Lib Dem (Lib Dem) Caroline Pidgeon 2 Cons (Cons) Richard Tracey 1 Green (Green) Jenny Jones (Cons) Gareth Bacon 1 Lab (Lab) John Biggs (Chair) *Offices of Chair and Deputy Chair of CHC delegated for decision at the start of each meeting of the Committee. 1 unallocated (unallocated) Richard Barnbrook Economy, Culture and Sport Committee Membership

Proportionality Party Name 3 Cons (Cons) Tony Arbour (Cons) Victoria Borwick (Cons) Andrew Boff 2 Lab (Lab) Len Duvall (Deputy Chair) (Lab) John Biggs 1 Lib Dem (Lib Dem) Dee Doocey (Chair)

36|37 London Assembly’s Annual Report 2011-12 Environment Committee Membership Police and Crime Committee Membership

Proportionality Party Name Proportionality Party Name 3 Cons (Cons) James Cleverly 5 Cons (Cons) Tony Arbour (Cons) Gareth Bacon (Cons) Gareth Bacon (Cons) Roger Evans (Cons) Victoria Borwick 2 Lab (Lab) Murad Qureshi (Chair) (Cons) James Cleverly (Lab) Nicky Gavron (Cons) Steve O’Connell 1 Lib Dem (Lib Dem) Mike Tuffrey 4 Lab (Lab) Joanne McCartney (Chair) 1 Green (Green) Darren Johnson (Deputy Chair) (Lab) John Biggs (Lab) Jennette Arnold Health and Public Services Committee Membership (Lab) Valerie Shawcross 1 Lib Dem (Lib Dem) Caroline Pidgeon (Deputy Chair) Proportionality Party Name (Lib Dem) Mike Tuffrey 3 Cons (Cons) Victoria Borwick (Chair) 1 Green (Green) Jenny Jones (Cons) Andrew Boff (Cons) Richard Barnes 2 Lab (Lab) Navin Shah (Deputy Chair) Time for Action Panel (Lab) Nicky Gavron Proportionality Party Name 1 unallocated (unallocated) Richard Barnbrook 2 Cons (Cons) Andrew Boff (Cons) James Cleverly Planning and Housing Committee Membership 2 Lab (Lab) Len Duvall (Lab) Joanne McCartney (Chair) Proportionality Party Name 1 Lib Dem (Lib Dem) Caroline Pidgeon 4 Cons (Cons) Tony Arbour (Cons) James Cleverly (Cons) Andrew Boff (Cons) Steve O’Connell 2 Lab (Lab) Nicky Gavron (Deputy Chair) (Lab) Navin Shah 1 Lib Dem (Lib Dem) Mike Tuffrey 1 Green (Green) Jenny Jones (Chair)

38|39 London Assembly’s Annual Report 2011-12 2008 Election Results Constituency Assembly Members Constituency Candidate Party Votes% Majority Transport Committee Membership Barnet and Camden Brian Coleman Conservative Party 41.15% 19,693

Proportionality Party Name Bexley and Bromley James Cleverly Conservative Party 52.59% 75,237 4 Cons (Cons) Richard Tracey Brent and Harrow Navin Shah The Labour Party 37.27% 1,649 (Cons) Roger Evans City and East John Biggs The Labour Party 34.69% 31,553 (Cons) Victoria Borwick Croydon and Sutton Stephen O’Connell Conservative Party 44.08% 42,665 (Cons) Steve O’Connell Ealing and Hillingdon Richard Barnes Conservative Party 43.15% 28,638 3 Lab (Lab) Valerie Shawcross (Deputy Chair) Enfield and Haringey Joanne McCartney The Labour Party 33.26% 1,402 (Lab) Joanne McCartney Greenwich and Lewisham Len Duvall The Labour Party 36.21% 16,134 (Lab) Murad Qureshi Havering and Redbridge Roger Evans Conservative Party 47.67% 43,025 1 Lib Dem (Lib Dem) Caroline Pidgeon (Chair) Lambeth and Southwark Valerie Shawcross The Labour Party 37.16% 23,648 1 Green (Green) Jenny Jones Merton and Wandsworth Richard Tracey Conservative Party 44.85% 26,293 North East Jennette Arnold The Labour Party 37.95% 28,437 South West Tony Arbour Conservative Party 40.82% 26,928 Standards Committee Membership West Central Kit Malthouse Conservative Party 53.41% 51,381 Proportionality Party Name 2 Cons (Cons) Tony Arbour (Deputy Chairman) (Cons) Victoria Borwick 2 Lab (Lab) Len Duvall (Lab) Murad Qureshi 1 Lib Dem (Lib Dem) Caroline Pidgeon Independent Pradeep Agrawal Members Lucy Dennett Sir David Durie KCMG Claer Lloyd-Jones (Chair) Diane Mark Sam Younger Deputy Mayor Richard Barnes

40|41 London Assembly’s Annual Report 2011-12 Londonwide Members Published reports 2011-12

Party Votes Votes% Number elected Time to Reflect: Development and evolution of the Mayor’s strategy to tackle Conservative Party 835535 34.63% 3 serious youth violence - March 2012 Liberal Democrats 275272 11.41% 3 Plane Speaking - Air and noise pollution around a growing Heathrow Airport Green Party 203465 8.43% 2 - March 2012 The Labour Party 665443 27.58% 2 In from the cold? Tackling fuel poverty in London - March 2012 British National Party 130714 5.42% 1 Disabled Londoners’ participation in sport and physical activity - March 2012 UK Independence Party 46617 1.93% 0 Highly charged – residential leasehold service charges in London - March 2012 Left List 22583 0.94% 0 Improving river services in London - February 2012 Independent (Rathy Alagaratnam) 3974 0.16% 0 Neighbourhood planning in London - February 2012 English Democrats 25569 1.06% 0 Tackling childcare affordability - February 2012 Respect (George Galloway) 59721 2.48% 0 Whose brand is it anyway? An examination of TfL’s sponsorship policy - February Abolish the Congestion Charge 63596 2.64% 0 2012 The Christian Choice 70294 2.91% 0 Sold Out? Update on ticketing for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games - One London (Leader Damian Hockney) 3430 0.14% 0 February 2012 Unity for Peace & Socialism 6394 0.27% 0 How well the transport network coped in the snow - February 2012 Electric vehicles in London - February 2012 Turnout and technical information Transport for London’s customer service - January 2012 Areas counted Votes Electorate 5,419,913 Railway embankments - January 2012 Papers counted / turnout 2,454,088 Response to the Mayor’s draft 2012/13 budget - January 2012 Turnout 45.28% Bleak Houses: Improving London’s private rented housing - December 2011 Change in turnout from 2004 8.31% The future of the London Ambulance Service - December 2011 Good votes Plugging the Energy Gap - December 2011 Constituency Assembly Member votes 2,406,289 Assembly response to the Draft GLA Budget 2012/13 - December 2011 Londonwide votes 2,412,607 Riot regeneration funding - December 2011 Rejected votes Park Life: The legacy of London’s Olympic venues - December 2011 Constituency Assembly Member votes 47,799 Londonwide votes 41,489 The Royal Parks - November 2011 Blank (no votes cast) 39,894 Rail industry plans - November 2011 The future of ticketing - November 2011 Mayor’s housing proposals - November 2011 Lane rental proposals - October 2011 Transport accessibility plans - October 2011 The Mayor’s role in economic development - October 2011 42|43 London Assembly’s Annual Report 2011-12 Pre-Budget Report 2011 - October 2011 Waste not, want not - a review of why recycling rates vary across London - October Further information Arabic 2011 For more information about the London Assembly, visit our website at www.london.gov.uk/assembly Olympic Park sustainability policy - September 2011 If you would like to keep up to date with the work of the Assembly, you can subscribe to our email State of the Underground report - September 2011 newsletter, London Assembly Update at Bengali www.london.gov.uk/assembly/ezine/form.jsp Response to proposals for High Speed 2 - July 2011

The administration of Visit London - July 2011 Useful links Chinese For a Rainy Day – the Mayor’s role in managing flood risk in the case of severe rainfall - July 2011 London Fire & Emergency Planning Authority: www.london-fire.gov.uk A review of the employment and skills opportunities of the 2012 Games-time period Transport for London: www.tfl.gov.uk - July 2011 Greek Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime: Implications of the Affordable Rent Model in London - July 2011 www.london.gov.uk/priorities/ mayors-office-policing-and-crime Public Toilets in London - July 2011 Gujarati You can view a copy of this report on the GLA website: The future of road congestion in London - June 2011 www.london.gov.uk/who-runs-london/the- london-assembly/publications Assembly response to the Cultural Olympiad Legacy Plan - June 2011

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