• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

What I would like to ask, though, is for an assurance from you as you are about to announce the allocation of the High Street Fund and the various bids for the £9 million associated with Outer London Fund 3, I suppose you could call it. Could you commit, Mr Mayor, to considering that a substantial investment will go into bids that feature street markets because of the --

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Regarding all of the civil and criminal protective orders that are available to the justice system for pursuing stalkers and those who have committed domestic violence, none of those measures imposes a positive obligation on the perpetrator to attend any treatment programmes or notify police when they change name, move to a different area, travel abroad or indeed form new relationships. If you are on the Violent and Sex Offender Register (ViSOR), that is something that is dealt with and it gives an opportunity to the agencies involved with that list of being able to take some action, for example...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Kit Malthouse AM: I hesitate to repeat the meeting, but it was one or two Mayor’s Question Times ago when exactly the same questions were asked by asking exactly the same question. Given this is meant to be a cross-party campaign and a national one, would you find it interesting, Mr Mayor, to know how many letters, telephone calls and meetings Assembly Member Knight has held with employers, trying to urge them to participate in the Living Wage, either in his role as a London-wide Assembly Member or as a local councillor?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 09 December 2014

Commissioner, is the Metropolitan Police planning any more days of action to help tackle knife crime following the success of Operation Big Wing?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 09 December 2014

Yes, thank you, Chair. I have a couple of questions for the Commissioner and for the Mayor. It is moving away; it is still on transparency but it is moving away from the topic raised by my colleague. Roger Evans AM (Chair): Not too far. Jennette Arnold OBE AM (Deputy Chair): Not too far but it is just to do with transparency. My question is in terms of transparency, in terms of what the MPS says and what the MPS does. I think that is really a good link. I want to ask the Commissioner in terms of what the...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 09 December 2014

That is really reassuring, Commissioner, because I think trust is really essential for the public and we have had some really recent high-profile cases where we have seen respected celebrities and other public servants jailed, some of them as paedophiles, and their hideous crimes uncovered, and I think with this sort of thing going on it is really important for the public to have absolute trust in the police and their investigations. Mr Mayor, do you think it is right for the MPS to have a compulsory public register of interests, including membership of the freemasons?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 09 December 2014

I want you to fast forward, OK, because Theresa May [MP, Home Secretary] has promised an inquiry, a judge-led inquiry, into undercover police officers, and supposing it happens in two, three, four years’ time, and you are called as ex-Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for London to give evidence, are you going to be able to give the evidence that they want to hear? For example, will you be able to tell them how many of the four officers that were looked at by the Herne Inquiry [Operation Herne – MPS internal review into use of undercover policing by the...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 09 December 2014

Sir Bernard, in your long and distinguished career, has there been any crime type, the statistics of which have followed a linear progression, either up or down, or has it always been two steps forward, one step back?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 09 December 2014

I want to come back to the issue of the rate of violent crime and I heard and I have asked questions of the Mayor, I think the last three Mayor’s questions, about what is driving this increase. I would just like to comment on something Andrew Boff [AM] said about domestic violence, undoubtedly part of that is the increase in recorded domestic violence, however I am hearing from my boroughs it is about an increase in reporting, however also about an increase. Boris Johnson (Mayor of London): About actual domestic violence, yes. Joanne McCartney AM: Therefore I was wondering...

• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 09 December 2014

Just taking us back briefly, if I may, to the pressures on the LAS at this time of the year, and obviously the point that was made earlier about drinking and excessive street drinking at this time of the year. In the past I have been fortunate enough to go out with your teams and see the valuable work they did and last week I was out representing the Mayor with the ambulance teams, and again the vast majority of people who had drunk themselves and had been abandoned by their friends and then ended up putting pressure on our...