• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Tony Devenish AM: I have three points, please. Firstly, we are almost at Christmas and I want to wish my local BCU Merry Christmas and thank them for all the work they have done during the year. They have been fantastic. On a far darker note, you will have seen the video online this week on Monday night during Hanukkah on Oxford Street, the antisemitism incident. Please make sure you catch these vile people as soon as possible. My third point and my question is, we had a very, very interesting meeting yesterday on the [draft] Police and Crime Plan...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Commissioner, we know that after serious concerns were raised by HMICFRS about a huge backlog in vetting and re-vetting of officers back in around 2018/19, progress has been made. But the Deputy Commissioner told me earlier this month that there are still around 100 officers whose up-to-date vetting status is in question. You accepted that vetting was not conducted correctly in the case of Wayne Couzens, but how can we be certain that you will swiftly implement the recommendations from Baroness Casey’s review and the current HMICFRS investigation into vetting when there have clearly been issues...

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Shaun Bailey AM: Good morning, Commissioner. Good morning, Mr Mayor. I would like to address my first question to the Mayor. What are you and MOPAC doing to ensure that Londoners have faith and confidence in the police?

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Unmesh Desai AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor. Good morning, Commissioner. Mr Mayor, I noted your answer to the Chair’s lead-off question, but can I ask you if you can be more specific and use some examples of how your new Police and Crime Plan will address the challenges we face in London today? Looking back, what do you feel are the key achievements of the 2016 to 2021 Police and Crime Plan?

• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Caroline Russell AM: Commissioner, I know you are aware of the great work going on in Iceland reducing violence and murder. I mentioned it to you informally earlier this year. Between 2005 and 2018, Iceland recorded just 24 murders. Over the same time period, London recorded 1,862 murders. I know Iceland is much smaller than London, but even so, Iceland had 67 murders per million people in that time compared to London’s 210 per million people; that is three times as many in London. I am wondering if you have looked at what police are doing in other countries, particularly...

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

Unmesh Desai AM: Mr Mayor, it has been shown that there is a link between misogynistic attitudes and extremism. What more work do you think needs to go into deradicalising those with deeply misogynistic views and what are you doing from City Hall in this area?

• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

Hina Bokhari AM: The LFB does an excellent job of fire safety outreach with businesses and schools. Will you push for similar work for flooding prevention outreach?

• Question by: Sem Moema
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

Sem Moema AM: I just want to first start by saying how mortified I am by the conduct of Members today, especially when we had so many people here who had come along to observe this last meeting of the Assembly in this place. It is shameful to those young people who were sitting here today to see a demonstration of democracy and the way that this Assembly has conducted itself, and the way that this meeting has been chaired. With that in mind and in the spirit of the manifesto commitments, I wanted to ask you, Mr Mayor, in...

• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

Krupesh Hirani AM: The previous Mayor promised to eradicate rough sleeping by 2012 and it doubled in the last five years of his mayoralty. He promised there would be staffed ticket offices at every station and then closed all of London’s ticket offices. He denied that he had plans to cut fire engines or stations, and then closed ten fire stations and removed 27 fire engines from office. It is really surprising that at this MQT the party opposite has decided to talk about transparency given what is happening with the corruption scandal in Parliament that mars their party as...

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

Emma Best AM: Thank you, Chair. In both of your manifestos, you made commitments to tackle the gender pay gap in London. Is it a source of personal regret to you, then, that both the gender pay gap has increased under your mayoralty as well as the ethnic minority pay gap?