• Reference: 2020/4328
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

I note the report in The Times newspaper on 5 October 2020 that a total of 1,343 pieces of evidence were recorded as lost or misplaced by the Metropolitan Police from the start of 2013 to 15 May 2020, according to data obtained under a Freedom of Information request 1. Would you please explain how this state of affairs has come about and what steps are being taken by the Metropolitan Police to rectify it? 1 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/met-police-has-lost-1-300-pieces-of-….

• Reference: 2020/4327
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

To ask the Mayor how many people have been given fixed penalty notices for failing to wear a face covering on public transport and what has been the total value of the fines?

• Reference: 2020/4326
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

As you will be aware, the practice, known as ‘facility time’ is when an employee takes time off from their normal role to carry out duties and activities as a trade union representative. On 8 October 2020, LBC reported: ‘In Boris Johnson's last year as London’s Mayor, TfL spent £4.4m, or 0.23% of its total wage bill on facility time. That body’s latest accounts show that figure is now £8.7m, or 0.4% of the wage bill.’ 1 The entire Home Civil Service spends just £10m on facility time. So just over £1m more than TfL, in spite of the fact...

• Reference: 2020/4325
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

What effect is the Metropolitan Police’s decision to abandon its tried and tested regime of ensuring all officers start at constable and working their way up through the ranks, currently having on the morale of the force’s junior ranks?

• Reference: 2020/4324
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

To ask the Mayor what has been the Metropolitan Police’s compliance level in handling Freedom of Information requests over the last three years?

• Reference: 2020/4323
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

To ask the Mayor how many Section 35 Dispersal Orders were issued in the Metropolitan Police District over the last three years and to tabulate your response by borough.

• Reference: 2020/4320
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

A new partnership led by Sheffield Hallam University, and including South Yorkshire’s Violence Reduction Unit (VRU), is to investigate the impact on young people of using images of knives in communications and police work, including whether it may cause more harm than good (https://www.shu.ac.uk/news/all-articles/latest-news/study-launched-impa…). Will you, the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) or your own VRU be reviewing the use of knife images by the MPS in a similar way in the near future?

• Reference: 2020/4319
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

Could you provide data showing the number of arrests under coronavirus legislation, as well as the number of attendees, during each of the main protests in 2020 in central London held in support of a) Black Lives Matter, b) Extinction Rebellion, and c) Groups opposing coronavirus measures?

• Reference: 2020/4318
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

Will the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) be the lead force at COP26?

• Reference: 2020/4317
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

Could you give an update on the progress of the young persons’ action group being established by the Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) and how it plans to work in partnership with the London Youth Assembly?