• Reference: 2021/4013
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

What engagement are you and the Deputy Mayor for Business having with London’s small and medium-sized businesses to understand their concerns and to plan support for the winter period, especially if we see a re-introduction of COVID-19 restrictions?

• Reference: 2021/4011
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

Will you support the campaign to designate Warren Farm and its surrounding meadows by the River Brent as a statutory Local Nature Reserve?

• Reference: 2021/4010
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

In their most recent report on child safeguarding in the Met, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services has stated that current wait times for forensic examination and digital devices is between 6-9 months after they have been submitted to one of the Met’s digital forensics hubs, with a current backlog of 1,277 submissions. How are you working with the Met and others to take the urgent action needed to reduce these backlogs?

• Reference: 2021/4009
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

Will you take urgent action to review how the Met monitors the behaviour and conduct of serving officers, including their activity on social media and online?

• Reference: 2021/4008
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

The Met Police have accepted that vetting was not conducted correctly in the case of Wayne Couzens, the officer who brutally murdered Sarah Everard in March. In our exchange in July (MQT 2021/2211), when I raised numerous recent cases of serious officer misconduct, you committed to sharing with me the steps being taken to improve vetting in the Met. Will you now commit to working with the Met to urgently review vetting practices within the organisation, which have also recently been heavily criticised by the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel?

• Reference: 2021/4007
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

Do you share concerns that the Met has an issue with misogyny and what are you doing to address this?

• Reference: 2021/4006
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

Following the public concern and questions emanating from the tragic murder of Sarah Everard, as well as other recent cases of serious officer misconduct, will the Met be undertaking a comprehensive review of recruitment, vetting, conduct in office and culture within the Met leading to measurable actions?

• Reference: 2021/4005
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

The recent Investigatory Powers Tribunal highlighted police failures to put in place systems, safeguards and protections for undercover investigations and that there were gross inadequacies in the training given to undercover officers in relation to sexual relationships. How is the Met now ensuring that guidance and training for undercover officers is much more robust, particularly around sexual relationships?

• Reference: 2021/4004
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

Considering the recent ruling by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal over the Met’s use of undercover policing against protest movements, will the Met be undertaking a further review of undercover policing practices to ensure they are conducted appropriately and within the law?

• Reference: 2021/4003
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

Do you believe that the Met’s purchase of a contract for retrospective facial recognition technology at a cost of up to £3,084,000 is the best use of public money when the legality of such systems remain in question and there is an ongoing debate on how to regulate facial recognition systems in the UK?