• Reference: 2020/3856
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

Thank you for your answers to my questions 2020/2646 and 2020/3327. There has been great confusion about the legality of protests during the ongoing coronavirus crisis and now, during this period of new national restrictions, Government has been clear that the larger gathering exemption for protests has been removed. Are you, MOPAC and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) developing guidance to inform and facilitate socially distanced democratic protests in each of the Covid alert level tiers?

• Reference: 2020/3855
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) investigation into the stop and search of Ms Bianca Williams and Mr Ricardo Dos Santos found that their three-month-old child had been added to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Merlin database for children known to the police. How many children are currently on this database? Please provide a breakdown by: a) age, for all age ranges captured on the database, b) ethnicity and, c) reason for being added to database?

• Reference: 2020/3854
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

Thank you for your answer to my question 2016/1955. Could you provide an update to this data showing how many protestors on Parliament Square have been: a) arrested b) had charges brought against them, and if available now c) been convicted during each of the years 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 (to date).

• Reference: 2020/3853
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

It is my understanding that the original £3.15 billion of Affordable Homes Programme 2016-21 funding detailed in MD2125 had a deadline of 31 March 2021 within its grant agreements, by which delivery of the funded housing schemes must have started. A number of schemes funded under that programme are now unable or unlikely to start on site by this date. Subsequent MD2282 set out an additional £1.67 billion for new grants to schemes starting up to 2022. Currently, the Delegated Approvals Log showing grant approvals on your Housing Statistics webpage ( https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/housing-and-land/increasing-housin…) lists all grant approvals made under your affordable...

• Reference: 2020/3852
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

Your draft Public London Charter has finally been published and is out for public consultation until 15 January 2021 ( https://consult.london.gov.uk/public-london-charter). Do you still intend to publish the final Public London Charter alongside the London Plan and, if not, how will new applications be judged after the London Plan is published until the Public London Charter is finalised?

• Reference: 2020/3851
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

The newly published consultation draft of your Public London Charter (https://consult.london.gov.uk/public-london-charter) does not mention facial recognition technology by name, although privacy guidance is included with reference to compliance with the Surveillance Camera Commissioner’s code of practice. Do you agree that facial recognition technology controlled by private companies should not be used in these spaces, and will you consider adding restrictions on facial recognition technology to the final charter?

• Reference: 2020/3850
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

The latest data given on privately owned public spaces via the Green Space Information for Greater London (GiGl) was last updated on the London Datastore website in 2017 (https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/privately-owned-public-spaces). Could you publish more up-to-date spatial data, including permissions given and completions for any new public spaces that are privately owned?

• Reference: 2020/3849
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

In July the government announced £1.5 billion in funding for the arts and creative sector. I have now heard from several creative freelancers that they and many of their colleagues have been made redundant and that, even though the funding has started to come through for organisations, it is going on building management and senior salaries. Will you lobby the government for increased funding for our vital creative and arts sector workers?

• Reference: 2020/3848
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

More than 3 million people in the UK were not eligible for furlough and some subsequent schemes including the newly self-employed and PAYE freelancers. Will you write to the government to ensure they will be supported during the second lockdown?

• Reference: 2020/3847
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

In your Transport Strategy you identify a target for Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) to be built to capture an additional surface area of 50,000 sqm per annum. What has been your progress on this, by year, since you were elected in 2016?