• Reference: 2021/2701
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 15 July 2021

There has previously been criticism and concern that the Met has not had appropriate flags on its systems to identify child criminal exploitation, including understanding if a child is in an out of area placement. Given the concerns that have been raised over child safeguarding in the Met previously by HMICFRS, how are you working to ensure all information that could flag child criminal exploitation is marked as a flag on the system, including if a child is a care leaver, in an out of area placement or in the care of the local authority?

• Reference: 2021/2700
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 15 July 2021

In answer to MQ 2019/8794 you stated that “MOPAC is part of the London Restorative Justice Network which continues to explore ways to promote the merits of restorative approaches across a range of public services including the criminal justice system.” Can you update me on how MOPAC has developed and advanced its work with the London Restorative Justice Network since 2019?

• Reference: 2021/2699
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 15 July 2021

How are you working to ensure restorative justice is an option for victims of crime, allowing them to make a choice of whether they would want to take part or not?

• Reference: 2021/2698
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 15 July 2021

I am aware that the Met previously ran diversity training in which it involved volunteers from underrepresented communities who came and engaged with officers and discussed their experiences. Can you confirm whether such diversity training still takes place?

• Reference: 2021/2697
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 15 July 2021

The latest available statistics from the GLA’s London Datastore show a further fall in public confidence in the police in London to just 55%. Confidence has steadily fallen since June 2017, from a high of 69%. What are you doing with MOPAC and the Met to try and understand and reverse this consistent fall we are seeing given the impact this could be having on crime and the reporting of crime in our city?

• Reference: 2021/2696
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 15 July 2021

Do you have plans for a strategic plan for EV infrastructure in the capital, working with partners who will help deliver this?

• Reference: 2021/2695
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 15 July 2021

What criteria was used by TfL, working with the DfT, to support the decision to stop travel in the morning peak for passengers using their 60 plus card or Freedom Pass? When will this be reviewed?

• Reference: 2021/2694
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 15 July 2021

What reassurance messaging are you promoting to help more people have the confidence to start using public transport again? Will you consider the wider rollout of hand sanitisers, including looking at whether these can be provided on buses?

• Reference: 2021/2693
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 15 July 2021

Please publish a list of all those schemes where the GLA has entered and not entered into an overage agreement with development partners since 2016?

• Reference: 2021/2692
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 15 July 2021

Do you support the campaign by RNIB, Guide Dogs and other disability organisations to ensure that tactile paving is installed at all train stations ahead of Network Rail’s current timetable of rolling out its provision at all platforms by 2029? Will you write to the Secretary of State for Transport in support of this campaign?