• Reference: 2025/4555
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 18 December 2025

A constituent has contacted me with deep concern about the cuts to the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund and the impact of these cuts on the thousands of London families who love and support children through special guardianships and adoption. Do you share our concern, and will you write to the Minister for Children to oppose these cuts?

• Reference: 2025/4554
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 18 December 2025

Thank you for your answer to my question 2025/2174. In November 2025, The Guardian reported that the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) had appointed Dr Gillian Fairfield to chair the follow-up review of the progress made against Baroness Casey’s recommendations. It is three months until another year will have passed, making it three years since the Casey Review. What are you doing to ensure that the follow up review that takes place will be as rigorous as the initial Casey Review?

• Reference: 2025/4553
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 18 December 2025

What mitigations is the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) putting in place to ensure that the ‘crime hotspots’ they deploy Live Facial Recognition (LFR) technology at are not subject to circular logic resulting in them always being considered crime hotspots by the MPS due to the arrests they are making as part of deployments?

• Reference: 2025/4552
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 18 December 2025

The October 2025 report, Live Facial Recognition Annual Report, from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) contains a line that states: “We have regularly reached out to external bodies to seek others’ advice, challenge and expertise, to help make our policy as good as it can be.” Could you share what external bodies the MPS has sought advice, challenge and expertise from?

• Reference: 2025/4551
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 18 December 2025

The October 2025 report, Live Facial Recognition Annual Report, from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) contains a line that states: “LFR helps the MPS locate these people without resorting to more intrusive, expensive and time-consuming tactics” and, “We know that LFR boosts productivity. By making officers more effective during hotspot operations, LFR allows us to achieve more arrests and deliver a greater impact on public safety than would be possible with the same resources alone.” Could you provide evidence proving that LFR boosts productivity and is less expensive and time consuming than other tactics?

• Reference: 2025/4550
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 18 December 2025

Thank you for your answer to my question 2025/3114. Given the reason provided for a lack of an answer is due to the volume of data, could you share with me the number of arrests, charges and cautions broken down by offence that have resulted from Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) use of Live Facial Recognition (LFR) technology from 12 September 2023 to 11 September 2024?

• Reference: 2025/4549
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 18 December 2025

What progress is Transport for London (TfL) making on the solar private wire project, and what contribution to TfL’s energy needs might private wire be able to support?

• Reference: 2025/4548
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 18 December 2025

What engagement does the GLA and Transport for London (TfL) have with the Flood Ready Partnership, and what are you expecting from your initial investment with it?

• Reference: 2025/4547
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 18 December 2025

After legal action taken against them by Clean the Air in Havering, Havering Council has now declared Launders Lane as contaminated land. Residents are pleased by this, but are concerned to ensure that there is not another summer of fires and toxic smoke. What actions are you taking for the GLA, along with London Fire Brigade to act to reduce the danger of this land?

• Reference: 2025/4546
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 18 December 2025

Did you, your Deputy Mayors or any GLA officers attend the National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature, hosted in London on 27 November 2025, and do you support their call for an urgent televised national emergency briefing for the public and a comprehensive public engagement campaign?