• Reference: 2021/0467
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

Has the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) used drones to monitor gatherings of Londoners in the last twelve months? Could you provide details of the legal basis, safety policies and risk assessments, and the policies for image collection and retention for any such uses.

• Reference: 2021/0466
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

As announced in your new policing Action Plan, the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS): “will imminently re-introduce the London residency criteria for most new recruits.” Have these criteria now been re-introduced, and what work is your office, MOPAC and the MPS doing specifically to support new affordable homes for key workers including police officers, to support this policy?

• Reference: 2021/0465
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

Your new Action Plan says: “The MPS (Metropolitan Police Service) is working to develop a ‘Handbook of Engagement’ which will be shared with communities.” When will this be published?

• Reference: 2021/0464
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

Your new Action Plan says: “MOPAC will scrutinise the MPS (Metropolitan Police Service) to ensure that Authorised Professional Practice (APP) is followed around searches based on multiple objective factors, and that officers ensure that where searches are based only on the smell of cannabis that their grounds and rationale are clear and fully documented. However it also says: “The IOPC [Independent Office for Police Conduct] follows the APP in recommending that the MPS ensures officers are not relying on the smell of cannabis alone when deciding to stop and search someone, and use grounds based on multiple objective factors.” Will...

• Reference: 2021/0463
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

Your new Action Plan says: “London’s Independent Victims’ Commissioner, Claire Waxman, will launch a new consultation with Black women and the End Violence Against Women (EVAW) coalition to understand their specific needs and experiences. Out of this, any recommendations directed at the wider criminal justice organisations in London will be pursued. This work will begin in November 2020 and will report in early 2021.” When will this report be available?

• Reference: 2021/0462
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

Is PLACE (Pan-London Accommodation Collaborative Enterprise), the scheme for London boroughs to use modular housing units to increase the supply of high-quality, temporary accommodation options for people needing a home, on target to start installation works for all initial sites on 19 February 2021?

• Reference: 2021/0461
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

Currently, housing associations lease social rent voids to councils at Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates instead of at social rents, which increases tenants’ rents and the cost to councils for housing the homeless. Will you look at introducing measures to stop housing associations leasing voids to councils ‘temporarily’ at LHA rents instead of at social rents?

• Reference: 2021/0460
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

In your answer to my question 2020/4315, you told me that the majority of building owners your officers are in touch with were due to have begun remediation work by the end of 2020. Can you tell me if this is the case, and if not, how many buildings are outstanding?

• Reference: 2021/0459
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

Could you start collating and publishing figures for all changes in social housing stock in London every year, including new build occupations, demolitions, acquisitions, right to buy sales, and other sales including housing association sell-offs?

• Reference: 2021/0458
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

We were expecting an older person’s action plan this year, but the draft has not yet been published because of delays caused by the coronavirus crisis. Could you tell me when you expect it will be published?