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Drug diversion and Mayor’s Action Plan

  • Reference: 2023/1239
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 23 March 2023
How will your pre-custody drug diversion pilot that is currently in development at an estimated cost of £150,000 be informed by the work of your Action Plan - Transparency, Accountability and Trust in Policing?

City Hall funded Leadership Academy (2)

  • Reference: 2023/1238
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 23 March 2023
How will the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) ensure that the lessons learned by MPS leaders and line managers attending the new City Hall funded Leadership Academy you announced as part of your 2023-24 budget proposal, filter through to the rest of the MPS?

City Hall funded Leadership Academy (1)

  • Reference: 2023/1237
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 23 March 2023
Will the new City Hall funded Leadership Academy you announced as part of your 2023-24 budget proposals, to raise standards across the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), include trauma informed training? What other information could you share around the kinds of training due to be offered by the Leadership Academy?

Policing the coronation

  • Reference: 2023/1236
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 23 March 2023
How are you going to work with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) to ensure that civil liberties are respected during the coronation celebrations, particularly with regard to surveillance, vehicle tracking and the right to protest?

Healthy free school meals

  • Reference: 2023/1235
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 23 March 2023
In the context of your plans to fund free school meals for all primary school children, and given the detrimental health and environmental impacts of meat, dairy and processed food consumption, what steps are you taking to encourage local authorities to prioritise the provision of good quality vegetables in school meals?

Mayor’s Advisory Group on Child Healthy Weight

  • Reference: 2023/1234
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 23 March 2023
In January 2022, London’s Child Obesity Taskforce transitioned into the Mayor’s Advisory Group on Child Healthy Weight. How has the group’s approach changed to consider improving the health of: a) underweight children, and b) young people living with eating disorders, and to what extent does it consider the importance of mental health to children’s healthy weight?

Funding for community cycling groups

  • Reference: 2023/1233
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 23 March 2023
On 28 February 2023, the London Assembly Health Committee took part in a ride-along with the community group Cycle Sisters, during which it became clear that such groups provide significant physical and health benefits as well as reduce reliance on car travel. What actions have you taken to support community cycling initiatives through health funding, as opposed to transport funding?

Barriers to wildfires

  • Reference: 2023/1232
  • Question by: Zack Polanski
  • Meeting date: 23 March 2023
Management of vegetation and creating new barriers have been suggested as solutions to reducing the risk of wildfires reaching Londoners’ homes. What environmental assessments will be taken before these measures are taken, and will you ensure that such measures are used to improve biodiversity?

Surge demand

  • Reference: 2023/1231
  • Question by: Zack Polanski
  • Meeting date: 23 March 2023
The Commissioner of the London Fire Brigade (LFB) says that changes have been made in the way it deals with surge demand. Will you outline how much extra capacity these changes could provide, and what improvement they will provide in cover compared with summer 2022?

Climate change and the London Risk Register

  • Reference: 2023/1230
  • Question by: Zack Polanski
  • Meeting date: 23 March 2023
What updates to the London Risk Register have you made since the 40 degree heatwave of summer 2022, which came earlier than was predicted by climate scientists?
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