Key information
Start date for this term:
Salary: £67,498
Constituency: Hounslow, Kingston upon Thames and Richmond upon Thames
Political group: City Hall Conservatives
Biography
Tony was a senior lecturer and Honorary Visiting Fellow at Kingston University Business School and a former Governor of the University. He is a Member of the Employment Tribunals of England and Wales.
Tony was GLC member for Surbiton between 1983 and 1986. He was first elected a Councillor for Hampton Wick in 1971. He is a Councillor in Richmond upon Thames Borough. Tony was Leader of Richmond Council 2002-2006.
Tony Arbour is a Justice of the Peace and Assistant Chairman of the Richmond upon Thames Bench.
He was vice-chairman of Kingston & Richmond Family Health Services Authority.
He has a vast historical and local knowledge of South West London.
He has four children, and has been a parent governor at local schools.
Hobbies include collecting first editions, carbooting, and ebaying.
Biographical information as supplied by individual Assembly Members.
Responsibilities for 2020-21
Deputy Chairman of the London Assembly
Member of the Environment Committee
Member of the Fire, Resilience and Emergency Planning Committee
Member of the Police & Crime Committee
Member of the Education Panel
Key issues
- Improving the environment and safety of the boroughs of Hounslow, Kingston upon Thames and Richmond upon Thames
- Greater London planning matters
- Improving access to the River Thames and increasing its use
- Cutting police bureaucracy and red tape and using the police to make London safer
- Transport issues