• 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?

• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Neil Garratt AM: Good morning. I would like to touch on protests, if I may, and in particular balancing the right to protest with the impact of those protests on the wider community and, for that matter, the welfare of the officers who are dealing with what can sometimes be quite tricky public order situations. Over the course of this summer, we saw a series of quite hate-filled protests, particularly directed at our Jewish community. I wonder about those sorts of antisemitic marches. What can be done to catch the people who are doing that - who, I would argue...

• Question by: Sem Moema
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Sem Moema AM: Of the measures being brought in the [draft] Police and Crime Plan that we discussed yesterday at the PCC, which measures do you think or hope will make the most significant impact in addressing youth homicide, which still remains pretty high?

• Question by: Nick Rogers
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Nicholas Rogers AM: Mr Mayor, back at July’s [2021] Mayor’s Question Time, I asked you what you/your Office/MOPAC was doing to combat LGBT domestic abuse, which is a serious and rising problem in our city. You said you would arrange for me to meet with someone from your team to explain the work that you were doing and, despite my best efforts, that meeting did not materialise. I submitted a written question in the September [2021] round of questions, asking for the same information and that question remains unanswered, despite chasing. Mr Mayor, I am a deeply reasonable person, but...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Joanne McCartney AM: My first question is to the Mayor and it is about violence against women and girls. The Government released its VAWG Strategy this summer. Do you think it was comprehensive enough in terms of preventing incidents and also to better serve victims, and if there were gaps, how will you be dealing with that in your forthcoming refreshed [VAWG] Strategy?

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Siân Berry AM: Carrying on my colleague’s theme of targeting zero deaths, I want to turn to enforcement on the roads and the proactive policing support that there is for Vision Zero there. Commissioner, I am keen to understand how transparent you are on this road danger work. Looking at the publications from TfL, its last Roads Policing Enforcement Statistics Bulletin was with data for 2018/19 and was published over a year ago now in November 2020. Briefly, when will we see an update to this bulletin and will it have up-to-date data from the MPS?