• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 21 December 2017

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: To the Mayor, your Police and Crime Plan states you will extend support for youth workers in A&E departments disproportionately impacted by knife crime injuries. When will youth workers be rolled out and to how many A&Es?

• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 21 December 2017

David Kurten AM: I want to address this to the Commissioner, if I could. Following on from Assembly Member Dismore’s question earlier about the couple of cases that have happened this week where we have had innocent men being put through the court system because of the withholding of evidence, it has come to my attention that the same person was in charge of both cases. Is it correct that Detective Constable Mark Azariah was the person who was in charge of both cases? This is in the press. I do not know if you can answer that or not...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 21 December 2017

Len Duvall AM: I have a question to the Commissioner first around Operation Dauntless. One aspect of it is a stream where you are tracking 500 repeat offenders across the MPS. Are you in a position to evaluate its success at the moment or do you have any views on how it is proceeding?

• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 21 December 2017

Dr Onkar Sahota AM: Mr Mayor, first of all, I join you in thanking the emergency services for the work they do. On Tuesday, the Home Office ducked the responsibility for police funding and the safety of Londoners by proposing real-term cuts to the police funding, offset in part by the ability of the Police and Crime Commissioners to raise some precept monies. Do you think that, as a result of this precept that you have put in today, this will eliminate the gap in the funding needs of the MPS?

• Question by: Florence Eshalomi MP
• Meeting date: 21 December 2017

Florence Eshalomi AM: The reality is that there are a number of people who are concerned about some of these images being shown online. There is a report by Catch-22 showing that, for some sections of young people, they see this as a way of glamorising that crime. To you, Mr Mayor, would you look at commissioning the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) to get some detailed evidence on this in terms of what the MPS are doing? The reality is that there is no fact-based evidence on the sharing of that social media imagery.

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 21 December 2017

Andrew Dismore AM: Thank you. Mine is to the Commissioner as well and on a reputational issue. Following the collapse of two rape trials in as many days due to failure to disclose evidence supporting the defence, you have launched a review of sex offence current cases. To misquote Oscar Wilde, to lose one case like this may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. Commander Smith has said he does not think there is a systemic issue around disclosure failures, but is that not prejudging the outcome of the review, and is it he who...

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 21 December 2017

Gareth Bacon AM: Thank you, Chairman. This is a question for the Commissioner. Commissioner, I believe this is your first appearance in front of the Assembly Plenary - I know you have been in front of the Police and Crime Committee (PCC) - and so welcome. Cressida Dick CBE QPM (Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis): Thank you. Gareth Bacon AM: One of the challenges for the MPS, not just in 2018 but in every year, is maintaining the reputation of the MPS. Sadly, there will be a number of people who will attack the MPS for a range of...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 14 December 2017

Len Duvall AM: Given the answers that you have given, Mr Mayor, and given the focus that you can bring to the issues that Assembly Member Shah brought up, do you not think it is time on the devolution agenda to democratise the NHS in London? We can be part of the national NHS, and rightly so, but there is something wrong when the focus is not always on tackling the difficult issues. I am aware of the challenges you have mentioned, the underfunding of the NHS and maybe the difficult decisions, but I would feel safer as a London...

• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 14 December 2017

Keith Prince AM: Mr Mayor, you did bit of a review when you came in, which I thought was quite sensible, in relation to TfL land. With TfL’s land you said, “Instead of just selling it off we are going to see if we can work with partners”. There is a framework with partners who you work with, but I do not want to go into that. Instead of selling off the land you are going to do JVs, joint developments (JDs) and generate revenue. Have you put that to the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC), Mr Mayor...

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 14 December 2017

Steve O’Connell AM: Mr Mayor, everyone around this Chamber held the former Mayor to account on the level of crime in this town, notwithstanding the financial pressures he was under. You are nearly two years into your mayoralty and crime is going up in London, serious knife crime and serious youth violence that we all see as a major challenge in the city. Around this horseshoe we all accept the MPS deserves a proper financial settlement. However, Mr Mayor, surely you must take some responsibility for the crime situation in London because it is under your watch. How do you...