• Reference: 2023/1866
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 18 May 2023

Thank you for your answer to my question 2023/1215. I've been speaking with young people on the London Youth youth board and they want a more robust process to be in place before a strip search takes place. Will you speak with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) about increasing the evidence threshold before a strip search takes place?

• Reference: 2023/1865
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 18 May 2023

Thank you for your answer to my question 2023/1215. I've been speaking with young people on the London Youth youth board and they tell me that they are concerned that underlying racism causes an unjustified level of strip searches on young Black people. They want to know how the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) can ensure racism does not lead to unfair strip searches and that this power is not overused?

• Reference: 2023/1864
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 18 May 2023

Thank you for your answer to my question 2023/1215. I've been speaking with young people on the London Youth youth board and they want to know how they can be sure that the annual training the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) receives around working with young people with neurodiversity is effective and implemented properly?

• Reference: 2023/1863
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 18 May 2023

Operation Onyx focuses on sexual offence or domestic abuse cases involving serving Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officers or staff where the allegation did not result in a dismissal at the time. Will the MPS extend Operation Onyx to include cases about racism and homophobia, or will they set up another operation to examine these?

• Reference: 2023/1862
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 18 May 2023

The final set of Covid-19 infection data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) was on 24 March 2023. Are you confident that your public health teams can track and manage any new Covid-19 variant of concern and keep Londoners safe, without access to this data?

• Reference: 2023/1861
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 18 May 2023

In the minutes of the London Drugs Forum meeting on 18 January 2023, it states that attendees reflected on how legislative changes aiming to divert drug users from the criminal justice system. They said these changes: “would intersect with treatment services and the possible impact this could have on provision.” Will you publish more detail about these possible challenges?

• Reference: 2023/1860
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 18 May 2023

In the minutes of the London Drugs Forum meeting on 18 January 2023, it states that work is taking place to complete a London Drugs Problem Profile. Do you intended to publish the London Drugs Problem Profile and, if so, when?

• Reference: 2023/1859
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 18 May 2023

Now that the London Drugs Forum has started to have meetings, could you publish, a) its terms of reference, and b) workplan?

• Reference: 2023/1858
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 18 May 2023

The Deputy Mayor for Transport confirmed in a letter to Age UK London on 13 April 2023 that you have launched a feasibility study to look at how more public toilets could be made available on the Transport for London (TfL) network. Will you share the terms of reference for the study, and when do you expect to report on the findings from the initial phase of the study?

• Reference: 2023/1857
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 18 May 2023

The November 2022 Independent Culture Review of the London Fire Brigade (LFB) documented that former Commissioner Dany Cotton received threatening phone calls in response to suggesting a register of Freemasons. Given this, are you comfortable with GLA bodies, such as the London Fire Brigade, receiving influential donations from Freemasons?