• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 06 August 2025

Len Duvall AM (Chair): Assembly Member Bokhari. Hina Bokhari OBE AM: Thank you, Chair. The question on when the Mayor knew about these cuts was quite an important question, but it is also important, Deputy Mayor, when you found out about the proposed cuts. We found out about them in July [2025]. Did you know about them before the last Police [and Crime] Committee meeting or did you know about them after the last Police [and Crime] Committee meeting? This is why we are having this Extraordinary Plenary meeting today because we are worried that you knew about these cuts...

• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 06 August 2025

Len Duvall AM (Chair): Let us move on to Assembly Member Garbett. Zoë Garbett AM: Morning. I am going to ask a bit about how the decision was made and identified. In the current A New Met for London Plan, phase one, you had a target to ‑‑ it said: “Londoners will be able to easily contact us, whether by phone digitally or face-to-face. Each borough will have at least one 24/7 counter by April 2025.” That was the date. That was just three months ago that that date was meant to be met and now you are planning to...

• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 06 August 2025

Len Duvall AM (Chair): Assembly Member Ahmad. Marina Ahmad AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning, panel. AC, why is there an in-year crisis in police funding and why was not this identified earlier?

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 06 August 2025

Len Duvall AM (Chair): I am going to now turn to Assembly Member Hall for the opening question. Susan Hall AM: Lovely, thank you very much, Chair. Deputy Mayor, why is the Mayor not here?

• Reference: 2025/3227
• Question by: Lord Duvall of Woolwich in the Royal Borough of Greenwich OBE
• Meeting date: 06 August 2025

Len Duvall AM (Chair): We now move to our question-and-answer session. Joining us in the Chamber we have Kaya Comer-Schwartz, Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime, and attending alongside her is Matt Twist KPM, Assistant Commissioner (AC) for Frontline Policing, Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). Can I thank you again for attending at short notice? Welcome to this meeting. There will be a lead-off question from me as Chair to both of our guests. Assembly Members may then put supplementary questions. Please can I ask Assembly Members to specify who they would like an answer from when they put their questions...