Our record on the London Assembly
The Liberal Democrats on the London Assembly have a strong record of delivering real results for Londoners.
You can find out about what the team have been doing in your area here.
The Liberal Democrat group has been:
- Proposing an extra £25 million to double facilities for recycling; demanding action on dumped free newspapers.
- Lobbying Government to fund the new ’super sewer’; challenging Thames Water to fix its leaks.
- Promoting renewable energy and eco design.
- Winning a pledge from Oxford Street traders to make Christmas lights more sustainable.
- Arranging a series of meetings bringing together Olympic organisers and the most deprived communities in London, to ensure they benefit from the Games.
- Surveying all police stations in London to find that 50% failed to answer non-emergency phonecalls. The Met is now investigating.
- Championing measures to improve the housing situation for Londoners, engaging with boroughs and London’s homeless organisations.
- Continuing to pressurise the Met to deliver one police station victim focus desk in every borough.
- Leading London Assembly Transport Committee proposals supporting the Cross River Tram but link it to Oxford Street, Holloway Road, the Emirates Stadium, Streatham, and New Cross, with full public consultation.
- Launching a new Lib Dem policy at London University for students’ half fares on London transport, now adopted by Mayor Livingstone.
Forcing the Mayor to backtrack on his absurd statement that he won’t pay a penny for Metronet’s extra Tube work (estimated at £1.2 billion).- Pressing the Mayor to act on bus fare evasion running at over £30 million a year.
- Proposing various bus improvements including express buses to Heathrow, Waterloo to St. Pancras, and in outer London.
- Questioning the excessive expenditure of the Mayor on consultants and deals with overseas governments.
- Putting the Mayor’s, Transport for London’s and the London Development Agency’s budgets under detailed scrutiny.
- Calling on the Met not to allow foreign police officers to carry guns on London’s streets during the 2012 Olympics.
- Campaigning to get London’s police forces to work together to reduce crime on overground rail.
- Challenging the Mayor to protect London’s Safer Neighbourhood Teams from future budget cuts.
- Criticising the Met’s use of controversial stop and search powers and pushed for better communication with London’s diverse communities.
- Helping Londoners engage in the Met’s plans to open new police stations across the capital.
