• Reference: 2025/2258
• Question by: Alex Wilson
• Meeting date: 11 July 2025

At the 2024 Notting Hill Carnival there were 100 spontaneous crowd incidents according to the Metropolitan Police Service. How many spontaneous crowd incidents would have to take place before you would withdraw your support for the event in its current form?

• Reference: 2025/2257
• Question by: Alex Wilson
• Meeting date: 11 July 2025

In the July 2024 minutes of the London Strategic Migration Partnership, Deputy Mayor Tom Copley reported that there were 951 new rough sleepers who had been in asylum accommodation in the previous year. What is the total cumulative figure as of July 2025?

• Reference: 2025/2256
• Question by: Alex Wilson
• Meeting date: 11 July 2025

Free speech protestor Hamit Coskun is in hiding and in fear of his life after being arrested, prosecuted and convicted under Public Order Act legislation. Lord Young of Acton, founder of the Free Speech Union, wrote in early June to Sir Mark Rowley and stated: “We consider that the risk to Mr Coskun’s life was caused, in part, by the actions of your officers… Your force had repeatedly suggested publicly that Mr Coskun had offended the ‘religious institution of Islam’. Doing so has increased the risk to Mr Coskun from Islamic extremists.” As Mayor of London and Commissioner for Police...

• Reference: 2025/2255
• Question by: Alex Wilson
• Meeting date: 11 July 2025

In TfL’s court action against Elevation Access reference 9210516529, how much cost has been incurred to date on external legal advice, split by fees charged by solicitors and counsel respectively?

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Léonie Cooper AM: Thank you, Chair. Mr Mayor, I just wanted to clarify in terms of protecting and restoring nature whether or not you think some of the protections in the current London Plan are strong enough. We are just entering into a discussion about parks. Is that a designation in planning or would you say that other planning, for example, insisting on biodiversity net gain, the urban greening factor, and things like MOL, provide stronger protections than the word ‘park’?