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Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) at COP26

  • Reference: 2020/4318
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 17 December 2020
Will the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) be the lead force at COP26?

Young persons’ action group

  • 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?

Use of restraints in custody suites

  • Reference: 2020/4316
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 17 December 2020
In your answer to my question 2019/19697, you told me that it was not possible to provide data on how many times Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officers used spit hoods in conjunction with other restraints in custody suites. Will you now reconsider making this data available, given that the importance of transparency and public access to data is highlighted in your new Action Plan?

Action against developers of buildings with unsafe cladding

  • Reference: 2020/4315
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 17 December 2020
In your answer to question 2020/3826 you state: “In September I wrote to more than 40 building owners who have failed to begin the remediation of unsafe ACM cladding demanding that they accelerate their plans to remove cladding and supply my officers with a timetable for action. Since then 13 of these buildings have begun remediation work.” Could you share with me the timetable for the 13 buildings on which work has started, as well as what action you are taking in respect of the owners of the 27 buildings that have yet to start remediation of unsafe cladding?

London housing data survey and analysis

  • Reference: 2020/4314
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 17 December 2020
The Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) publishes a detailed factsheet on the accessibility of existing homes as part of the English Housing Survey (EHS) (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-housing-survey-2018-ac…). The data is not broken down by region because of the small sample size. However, for other measures, such as for overcrowding as part of the Strategic Housing Market Assessment, the GLA carries out analysis of EHS data at a London level, based on a three-year rolling average. Have your officers done the same with this detailed accessibility data? If so, could you share this analysis with me and, if not, could...

Lack of affordable housing in the London Legacy Development Corporation area

  • Reference: 2020/4313
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 17 December 2020
What are you doing about the fact that the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) area is currently predicted to only provide 22 per cent affordable housing, compared with its target of 50 per cent?

Demographics of people housed by GLA hotels programme

  • Reference: 2020/4312
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 17 December 2020
Could you provide a breakdown of the people, both ever and currently, housed in the GLA hotels programme to house homeless people during the coronavirus pandemic by gender and age, including how many of those are under 25, and separately provide data on how many of those housed in hotels have no recourse to public funds (NRPF)?

Data on rough sleepers

  • Reference: 2020/4311
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 17 December 2020
How have the numbers of homeless people sleeping rough across London changed since the last figures released by CHAIN? Could you share any up-to-date weekly figures to help with winter policy discussions?

Wider impact of cashless Transport for London stations

  • Reference: 2020/4310
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 17 December 2020
You are proposing to remove the ability to pay with cash at Transport for London (TfL) stations, and this may encourage other businesses in London to stop accepting cash. What studies and consultation have you undertaken to consider the wider impact of TfL moving to cashless operation on the financial health of Londoners?

Financial Health of Young People Survey

  • Reference: 2020/4309
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 17 December 2020
In your oral response to my question 2018/0939 on 7 May 2018, you said: “City Hall recently conducted a representative survey of young people in London that showed less than half could identify having learned anything at school about how to manage money,” and told me that survey was due to be published on 6 June 2018. Could you share this survey and any subsequent surveys on the financial health of young Londoners?
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