• Reference: 2021/1199
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

I note that on 24 February 2021 Mr Toyin Agbetu - one of your Commissioners for Diversity in the Public Realm resigned, after his blog posts commenting on Jewish people were brought to City Hall’s attention by Jewish News. One of his posts claimed there was an ‘immoral hierarchy of suffering’ which had seen victims of the Holocaust ‘served well by Nazi hunters’ compared to African victims of the slave trade. Agbetu has also claimed that Jews played a leading role in the Atlantic slave trade. In 2007, he also heckled the Queen, during a service at Westminster Abbey to...

• Reference: 2021/1198
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

What have been the Metropolitan Police’s clear up rates for murder, burglary, rape and Grievous Bodily Harm over the last five years?

• Reference: 2021/1197
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

Is there anything about Operation Midland (the Metropolitan Police investigation into Carl Beech’s bogus claims about a VIP paedophile ring) that you think could have been handled differently?

• Reference: 2021/1196
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

How much money did the Metropolitan Police spend on Diversity and Inclusion over the last five calendar years?

• Reference: 2021/1195
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

How many Diversity and Inclusion advisers does the Metropolitan Police currently employ?

• Reference: 2021/1194
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

What is the current anticipated opening date for Crossrail?

• Reference: 2021/1193
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

How many instances of drugs going missing from the custody of the Metropolitan Police were there in the period 2016-2020? Could you please tabulate your response by year, drug, quantity and borough (or Borough Command Unit)?

• Reference: 2021/1192
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

What is the current Metropolitan Police non-white recruitment target?

• Reference: 2021/1189
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

From which locations are you removing Pandrol Vanguard pads? Will you be replacing them with Delkor at all locations? What is the timescale for this work?

• Reference: 2021/1188
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

This sector has taken a major blow during the pandemic crisis. For some it is fatal. However, what steps are you taking to revive and support this sector which makes a major contribution to London’s economy and is a flagship of our diversity and heritage?