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Dear Mr Tweedy

Re: Freedom of Information Request 4890

Thank you for your recent request to the Council. You asked to be provided with the following information:

1) As you mentioned, there is no evidence on the gender or size/height of the person(s) who were injured by cyclists. Could you please explain how Angela Harvey can use he term "little old ladies" to describe this group when there is no evidence on gender or size/height.

2) Can you please explain how Angela Harvey can use the term "always" in her statement “We're always getting little old ladies who are knocked down and abused by a cyclist, who leaves them on the ground as they ride away” when there have only been 8 reported incidents between the period of 01/07/2006 to 31/08/2009.

3) Can you please provide me with the evidence of hit and run incidents that was presented to the Built Environment Committee.

4) Can you please explain what you mean when you say "Cllr Harvey believes that the quotation you've mentioned “We're always getting little old ladies who are knocked down and abused by a cyclist, who leaves them on the ground as they ride away” is a mis-conflation of a number of comments made when relating to incidents described by Westminster residents." I am most interested in your use of the word "mis-conflation" as i cannot find a definition for it. My understanding of the definition of the word "conflation" is "To bring things together and fuse them into a single entity" which doesn't make any sense in the context you/Angela Harvey have used it in. I ask this as the same quote from Cllr Angela Harvey (using the word "always") has been used in a number of other articles, including one in the Telegraph which can be found here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6...

Response

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 gives any person the right to make a request to a public authority for information that it holds. This entails that the information is recorded, in accordance with the definitions under section 84 of the Act. This response, therefore, will provide the answers to your questions where the information is held by the Council.

Yours sincerely,

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