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VAWG and Online Safety (1)

  • Reference: 2021/2214
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 24 June 2021
The Internet Watch Foundation’s 2020 Annual Report showed a 77% increase in reports of self-generated sexualised material online with analysis showing that in 80% of these cases the victims were 11-13 year-old girls. Of course, this data is not specific to London but it does show a concerning pattern of girls being groomed online. Given the increasingly gendered nature of this issue, what more are you doing through your VAWG programmes to protect and safeguard young girls online?

Supporting Tech Start-ups with Safeguarding

  • Reference: 2021/2213
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 24 June 2021
London has a proud reputation for our tech start-ups. However, with increasing reports of online child sexual abuse how are you, through MOPAC and as Chair of the LEAP, working with the tech sector and particularly London’s tech start-ups to promote the importance of safeguarding measures for children and protections against the sharing of child sexual abuse content?

Violence Prevention Programmes Data Sharing with MOPAC

  • Reference: 2021/2212
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 24 June 2021
Are all the various violence prevention programmes funded and supported by MOPAC and/or the Met in custody suites, A&Es and communities across London providing data and information on details such as the location of crimes and weapons used by the GLA Safe Stats team?

Waking Watches

  • Reference: 2021/2497
  • Question by: Anne Clarke
  • Meeting date: 24 June 2021
What representations have you made to Government for them to pay upfront the costs of remediation for those living with flammable cladding, and in the meantime, what could they do to support those leaseholders paying extortionate Waking Watches costs?

Gender-neutral toilets

  • Reference: 2021/2302
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 24 June 2021
Do you agree that it is an important public health and equalities issue that gender-neutral toilets in London are preserved and improved, alongside the provision of any new facilities?

End of the Eviction Ban

  • Reference: 2021/2551
  • Question by: Sem Moema
  • Meeting date: 24 June 2021
With the Government ending the ban on evictions, how do we stop Londoners being forced out of their homes? You have said, “my team continues to talk to government officials about how best to respond to this situation [the end of the eviction ban]. This should include a financial support package for those who have built up arrears during the pandemic, improved access to welfare benefits and a two-year rent freeze in London. The Government must also now act on its promise to ban Section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions, to provide far greater security for renters.” Can you provide an...

London Disability Employment Taskforce

  • Reference: 2021/2222
  • Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
  • Meeting date: 24 June 2021
In 2018 the Social Market Foundation and the Trust for London recommended that you should constitute and lead a London Disability Employment Taskforce. What progress has been made on this since then?

New community plans for London small sites

  • Reference: 2021/2301
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 24 June 2021
How are you going to involve Londoners from the ground up in making a new strategy for small sites in London?

Stop and search based on the smell of cannabis

  • Reference: 2021/2300
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 24 June 2021
The IOPC recommended against stop and searches based on the smell of cannabis alone, can you confirm that since the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) accepted this recommendation that no Londoners have been stopped and searched solely for this reason?

Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Health Inequalities

  • Reference: 2021/2586
  • Question by: Onkar Sahota
  • Meeting date: 24 June 2021
How are you working to address the health inequalities of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities in London?
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