That this House notes with concern that documents revealed by the District Auditor's public hearings into gerrymandering by Westminster City Council indicate that Councillor Mike Young, current leader of the Council, was fully aware of the strategy to secure electoral advantage by concentrating resources on marginal or key wards; notes that he was in charge of the so-called Quality of Life initiative, one of the schemes within the strategy; further notes that the Auditor is now considering adding Miles Young to the list of those facing surcharge over the Homes for Votes scandal; therefore believes it to be totally inappropriate for him to lead a group of Conservative councillors to picket the offices of the Auditor on 22nd February and to issue a press release calling for 'urgent action ... to rein in the Audit Commission'; and further believes he should immediately resign as Leader of the Council in view of the conflict of interest between his potential liability to audit action and the urgent need to restore proper standards of conduct to Westminster City Council.

That this House notes with concern that documents revealed by the District Auditor's public hearings into gerrymandering by Westminster City Council indicate that Councillor Mike Young, current leader of the Council, was fully aware of the strategy to secure electoral advantage by concentrating resources on marginal or key wards; notes...

That this House calls on Westminster Conservative councillors to explain why schemes in an environmental project called Quality of Life were, according to internal Tory documents, to be targeted as far as possible into eight marginal wards in Westminster; notes that this targeting was part of the so-called Building Stable Communities strategy whose aim was to gerrymander the 1990 local elections; further notes that the councillor in charge of the Quality of Life project was Miles Young, currently the Leader of Westminster Council; calls on him to explain why in 1987 he put forward proposals that were subsequently implemented for the unlawful targeting of environmental and enforcement spending in the marginal wards, his role in the eviction of homeless young people from the Ambrosden Hostel in his marginal ward of Victoria and its subsequent sale to developers at ??2 million below its market value as part of the gerrymandering strategy and his role in co-ordinating unlawful party political publicity expenditure by the council through the so-called BSC Communications Strategy; and also calls on Robert Davis, the current Chair of the Planning Committee in Westminster, to explain why he wrote a paper in 1987 advocating that planning enforcement resources should, in line with BSC strategy, be concentrated in target marginal wards to ensure that the right type of homes are provided bringing with it the right sort of voters.

That this House calls on Westminster Conservative councillors to explain why schemes in an environmental project called Quality of Life were, according to internal Tory documents, to be targeted as far as possible into eight marginal wards in Westminster; notes that this targeting was part of the so-called Building Stable...