• Reference: 2025/2347
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 11 July 2025

There are more underoccupied than overcrowded homes in London. How are you using your powers to make the most out of our existing housing stock, and what additional powers are you lobbying Government for?

• Reference: 2025/2346
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 11 July 2025

Thank you for your answer to MQ 2025/1757, in which you outlined your successor schemes to the Good Growth Fund. What key learnings will you take from the Good Growth Fund to improve how you manage these schemes?

• Reference: 2025/2345
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 11 July 2025

A private developer has just made a £36m profit after buying and sitting on an empty parcel of land in the centre of Elephant and Castle for over a decade. No homes were built in that time. What steps are you taking to combat land banking in London?

• Reference: 2025/2344
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 11 July 2025

Thank you for your answer to my question 2024/1884. Could you tell me how many people, broken down by ethnicity, age and gender, have been arrested by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) under the Vagrancy Act since your previous answer to me?

• Reference: 2025/2343
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 11 July 2025

In May 2025 the London Drugs Commission published its report, The Cannabis Conundrum: a way forward for London. Recommendation 4 in this report calls on you to: “expedite considerations to introduce a drug testing service in London, which includes the capability to test cannabis, as soon as practicable.” What steps will you be taking to ensure that this recommendation is actioned?

• Reference: 2025/2342
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 11 July 2025

Funding for London Holistic Advocacy Wrap Around Service (LHAWAS), a partnership project led by Southall Black Sisters, is currently due to end at the end of September 2025 with no alternative provision planned for this financial year, leaving a six-month gap until the new service would begin and a cut in the continuation of the service. Could you tell me: a) what other services funded by MOPAC are also going to experience a gap in funding and a cut in service, b) which of these services are specific to Black, minoritised and migrant women, c) what the reason for each...

• Reference: 2025/2341
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 11 July 2025

Thank you for your response to my question 2025/0858. Thank you for answering the first part of my question. Could you answer the second part of the question and tell me what the documented outcomes of police in schools and Safer Schools Officers (SSOs) are from 2010 to 2024? For example, what impact did police in schools and SSOs have on the internal measures recorded on the Safer Schools Dashboard?

• Reference: 2025/2340
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 11 July 2025

SandCat armoured vehicles have been spotted driving around the streets of London. The SandCat vehicles are replacing Jankel Guardian vehicles. Could you tell me: a) how many Jankel Guardian vehicles the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) owned, b) how much each of these vehicles cost, c) how many times any Jankel Guardian vehicles were deployed in London since their introduction, and d) what the MPS has done with these vehicles now they have reached the end of their anticipated service life?

• Reference: 2025/2339
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 11 July 2025

SandCat armoured vehicles have been spotted driving around the streets of London. How have these vehicles been used to date and what scenarios does the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) plan on using them in?

• Reference: 2025/2338
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 11 July 2025

SandCat armoured vehicles have been spotted driving around the streets of London. Do you believe that the purchase, use and deployment of these vehicles by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) is an appropriate and proportionate use of the limited resources available to the MPS?