• Reference: 2020/3864
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

Just 150 of the 1,000 academic mentors promised as part of the government’s £1bn education catchup plans will be in schools in England by the end of the year. Can you provide an update on your work to provide mentors to young Londoners?

• Reference: 2020/3863
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

A recent poll by YMCA found that most black children experience racism at school. With 70% feeling under pressure over afro hair, 95% hearing racist language and half think racism is the biggest barrier to success. What are you doing to tackle racism in schools?

• Reference: 2020/3862
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

What work have you done to encourage schools in London to include black authors in the curriculum?

• Reference: 2020/3861
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

Can you provide an update on your work with the Black Curriculum?

• Reference: 2020/3859
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

Uber has confirmed, in an article in The Times on 18 September 2020, titled ‘Uber gives police private data on drivers and passengers’, that it responds to over 2,000 requests for information per year from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). What kinds of information and data does the MPS request and collect from Uber on drivers and passengers, how long is this information and data stored, and which agencies have access to it?

• Reference: 2020/3858
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

A report in the Guardian on 19 October 2020, titled ‘Leaked review of Met police body worn video footage reveals officer errors’, shows the continuing need for public scrutiny of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). Why is it that the MPS internal memo mentioned in the report suggests it is reluctant to release the footage because it would exacerbate public criticism, and not, as you have previously stated, because it is legally restricted from doing so?

• Reference: 2020/3857
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

Despite repeated requests from the community and members of the London Assembly Police and Crime Committee that Community Monitoring Groups are allowed to resume their viewing of body-worn video footage captured by Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officers during stop and search this has not yet happened. You recently said in response to MQ 2020/2836: “there is no legal pathway to routinely release footage except for exceptional circumstances.” With no public scrutiny of this footage for some time now, how can your claim that body-worn video is: “the biggest game changer in ensuring the human rights of all people are protected...

• 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).