• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

Emma Best AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor, and thank you for your updates. At the last MQT I told you how vital reopening the Night Tube was and we were agreed on that and as well how important it is for those 150,000 that signed that petition asking for the opening of the Night Tube, because too many women and girls have witnessed or experienced sexual harassment at night travelling home, and really need that safe haven transport. If I am correct, can I sum up what I took from your remarks and you can confirm if correct, the Night...

• Question by: Elly Baker
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

Elly Baker AM: Thank you, Chair. I would like to ask a couple of follow-up questions around the very, very serious situation you have outlined in regard to TfL this morning. In your update and as we have seen in the press this morning and TfL papers, bus services potentially could be cut by almost a fifth without a sustainable funding settlement from Government. We know that low-income Londoners, working-class Londoners, are more likely to use the bus, much more likely to use the bus, along with women, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Londoners, our youngest and our oldest...

• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

Zack Polanski AM: I wanted to bring us back to COP and I agree on the scale of the challenge. World leaders, too often, have not stepped up to the challenge, particularly on finance. I was at COP and working really hard. I want to acknowledge how hard you were working at COP. Everywhere I went, you seemed to be here, there and everywhere, particularly in your role as Chair of the C40 [Cities Climate Leadership Group]. It struck me how much people are looking to London for that leadership role on the global stage. You have a net-zero pathway...

• Question by: Elly Baker
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Elly Baker AM: I have a couple of questions about domestic abuse for the Commissioner. We have very little time, though, just to let you know. If we could have short answers, that would be great. The first one is around the use of Domestic Violence Protection Orders (DVPOs) and Domestic Violence Protection Notices (DVPNs), as well as the use of Clare’s Law, which varies significantly across London. We are aware that in Barking there are twice as many DVPOs and DVPNs used and almost four times the amount of Clare’s Law right-to-know disclosures than in Barnet. Do you know...

• Question by: Sakina Sheikh
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Sakina Sheikh AM: Homophobic hate crime in this city continues to be a real concern with the number of incidents in recent months surpassing any previous month on record. We have heard from some of my colleagues around the rise in antisemitic incidents and I wanted to shed a specific light on attacks on East and South Asian Londoners, which obviously increased during the pandemic, which was not helped by hateful comments made by the former United States President. My question, first, to you, Commissioner, is: have you done any analysis as to why we are seeing such a rise...

• Question by: Anne Clarke
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Anne Clarke AM: Mr Mayor, please can you provide us with an update on the current situation with the court backlog in London and what impact this is having on successful conviction rates?

• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Krupesh Hirani AM: My questions are relating to the impact of budgets and police funding. Firstly, to the Commissioner, this year the Government chose to freeze the wages of police officers earning more than £24,000, which is effectively a pay cut given inflation at the moment is at 4.1%. Sadly, we all know one of the negatives about living in our wonderful city is the cost of living and the impact that housing costs have on Londoners. What impact will freezing pay have on your workforce both in terms of morale - we all know about the representation of the...

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Susan Hall AM: Mr Mayor, it was reported on 28 [November 2021] that teenage murders in London are up to the highest rate since 2008 with 28 young people so far slain in 2021. That is absolutely horrific for all of us. It makes up at least half of the teenage homicides in the whole of the United Kingdom. If you look at this, the disproportionality of crime in the Black community is terrifying. You are four times more likely to be a victim. You are eight times more likely to be a perpetrator. I know you have said before...

• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Dr Onkar Sahota AM: Good morning, Mayor. The Assembly, the Commissioner and you are all agreed and we are all agreed that we need 6,000 more police officers in London. Have you had any indication from the Government when we will get the 6,000 police officers, and why are those 6,000 officers important for London?

• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Marina Ahmad AM: Mr Mayor, what impact have the actions brought forward through your action plan to improve transparency, accountability and trust in policing had since it was introduced a year ago?