• Reference: 2022/1365
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 May 2022

The Met has been subject to annual child safeguarding inspections by HMICFRS since the significant failings identified by HMICFRS in 2016. Despite improvements, the 2022 report still presented serious and ongoing concerns. Do you share my concern that HMICFRS isn’t planning any further inspection of the Met under the banner of their national child protection inspections, and will you ask them to continue these inspections of the Met until vast improvements are seen?

• Reference: 2022/1364
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 May 2022

During the 2021 inspection, HMICFRS audited 170 child protection cases of which a staggering 68% were graded as either requiring improvement or inadequate. After five years and four HMICFRS child safeguarding inspections, why is the Met still struggling so significantly with child safeguarding and how will you be prioritising this going forward, given the persistent failures?

• Reference: 2022/1363
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 May 2022

How much has the Met spent on defending their position in relation to the policing of the Sarah Everard Vigil in March 2021, including their attempts to appeal the High Court ruling, which found in favour of the Reclaim These Streets campaigners?

• Reference: 2022/1362
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 May 2022

What was the total cost of the Met commissioning the academics, who applied an established theoretical model to the concept of institutional corruption?

• Reference: 2022/1361
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 May 2022

The Met has stated the Operation Drayfurn team, looking at the Met’s response to the recommendations from the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel, engaged a number of independent subject matter experts who applied an established theoretical model to the concept of institutional corruption and provided some commentary on their findings. Will the Met commit to publishing in full the findings of and analysis conducted by the academics involved?

• Reference: 2022/1360
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 May 2022

Can you clarify the approach the Met is taking to enforcement of private e-scooter use on public paths and highways in London.

• Reference: 2022/1359
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 May 2022

What progress has the Met made in replacing helicopter use with drones, where possible, in its policing operations?

• Reference: 2022/1357
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 19 May 2022

I have been contacted by residents with concerns that some of their landlords are failing to provide references through the GLA Housing Move Scheme in a timely manner, resulting in deals falling through. Could you: a) tell me what you are doing to monitor deals, b) tell me what formal agreements there are, and c) if there are formal agreements, could you provide example copies to me illustrating the terms, redacted if necessary?

• Reference: 2022/1356
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 19 May 2022

Leaseholders have contacted me with concerns regarding their freeholder’s refusal to commit to vital fire safety remediation works, despite having a costed plan commissioned from an independent safety consultancy and this being proposed as a legal requirement under the Building Safety Bill. This leaseholder receives funding from the GLA to build affordable homes and I am concerned this is a more general issue for Londoners. What are you doing to ensure that all developers you fund are following Government guidelines over building safety?

• Reference: 2022/1355
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 19 May 2022

During the London Assembly Housing Committee investigation into London’s private rented sector in March 2022, we heard about local authorities in west London placing residents in temporary accommodation in east London owing to the lower costs there and the requirement for a London-wide approach to homelessness. Did the GLA’s Enhanced Setting the Standard Programme [ Ref ADD2415] seek to tackle this problem of inappropriate relocations? If so, what are the results and, if not, what action are you planning to take to deal with this issue?