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Home building resilience

  • Reference: 2022/2919
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
What actions are you taking to assess and mitigate the risks in building the homes Londoners need over the next two decades, specifically in respect of electricity grid capacity, drinking water supply and construction carbon emissions?

High Streets Fund supporting community groups to use empty commercial space (2)

  • Reference: 2022/2918
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
Thank you for your answer to my question 2021/4837. Do you consider that funding eight projects for community groups taking over empty shops is providing enough support to local grassroots organisations across the whole of London, and what more could you do to enable communities to take over empty public spaces in their neighbourhoods?

Unallocated Affordable Homes Programme 2016-23 grant

  • Reference: 2022/2917
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
Could you provide a breakdown of how the unallocated £535 million in the Affordable Homes Programme 2016-23, which was notified to the London Assembly Budget and Performance Committee in September 2020 (https://www.london.gov.uk/about-us/londonassembly/meetings/mgChooseMDoc…) has been spent or committed since that date, including the amount allocated through specific new initiatives, such as the Right to Buy-Back Fund, and how much remains unallocated today?

Community Housing Fund spending

  • Reference: 2022/2916
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
Could you provide a breakdown of how the Community Housing Fund has been allocated and spent since it was initiated in 2019? Could your response cover the original £38 million fund, plus any additional funding added, and be broken down into revenue funding, capital grants and development finance, along with a list of all schemes supported and the number of homes in each?

Youth services for London’s GRT community

  • Reference: 2022/2915
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
To what extent has the Young Londoners Fund reached young members of the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) community in London? Could you provide details of any assessment carried out of funded programmes to ascertain the number of GRT young people reached, and whether any specific funding has been allocated to GRT youth projects?

Public reporting of driving offences

  • Reference: 2022/2914
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
The public can report driving offences to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) on their website and provide digital evidence such as dash cam and head cam footage. How many public reports of driving offences supported by digital evidence have the MPS received from 2016 to 2021 broken down by year and how many have resulted in investigation and Notice of Intended Prosecution (NIP)?

MPS Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship and Degree Holder Entry Programme (3)

  • Reference: 2022/2913
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
Thank you for your answer to my question 2022/1330. It was reported in The Times in July 2022 that the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) was forced to get rid of a ‘racist’ case study in its Degree Holder Entry Programme for Detectives course after university lecturers refused to deliver it. A former detective who taught the case study, said: “The scenario explains why nothing is changing in the police. When I was at training school all suspects were black. As educators we cannot allow young minds to be contaminated with racism and discrimination.” In light of this, do you believe...

Livestreaming body worn video

  • Reference: 2022/2912
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
In July 2022, West Midlands Police became the first UK police force to livestream video from its body worn video (BWV) cameras. Does the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) have any plans to trial or implement livestreaming from body worn video?

MPS Prevent referrals

  • Reference: 2022/2911
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
A letter about the Prevent Programme from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Prevent Lead was sent to London’s parents ahead of the summer holidays about the risk of online radicalisation of young people. Are you able to confirm how many Prevent referrals resulted from the letter during August, as well as the number of referrals for August 2021 and August 2020 broken down by age brackets 0-10 and 11-18?

MPS Prevent letter to schools

  • Reference: 2022/2910
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
Are you able to confirm if all schools in London received a letter about the Prevent Programme from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Prevent Lead this summer? If not, are you able to confirm: a) which schools received the letter, and b) the criteria used to select the schools that would receive the letter?
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