CRIME IN LONDON

Early day motion 825, tabled 30 January 2008 by Baroness Featherstone (Liberal Democrat). Signed by 11 members.

That this House recollects than on 20th January 2004 Ken Livingstone said `I would be disappointed if, by the end of rollout of the entire neighbourhood policing programme - which is going to take four years - we hadn't cut crime by 50 per cent.'; notes that crime has not fallen by this figure during the past four years; further notes Brian Paddick's excellent record on cutting crime during his two years as Metropolitan Police Borough Commander in Lambeth from 2000 to 2002; and therefore welcomes Mr Paddick's commitment to a five per cent. annual reduction in crime during each of the next four years if he is elected as the Liberal Democrat Mayor of London on 1st May 2008.

Signatures by party: Liberal Democrat 11.