• Reference: 2020/2935
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 17 September 2020

How are the individuals who will comprise the Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm be selected?

• Reference: 2020/2934
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 17 September 2020

Will the members of the Commission have the status of public appointees? ie on what terms?

• Reference: 2020/2933
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 17 September 2020

Will the members of the Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm be paid and if so, how much?

• Reference: 2020/2932
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 17 September 2020

Can the Mayor tell us what the Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm will cost the public purse?

• Reference: 2020/2931
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 17 September 2020

At the top of Pall Mall stands Sir Thomas Brock’s Victoria Memorial which features a resplendent seated figure of the Queen Empress. Given that memorial’s overt celebration of the mother figure of the British Empire and imperial might, do you think it should be removed?

• Reference: 2020/2930
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 17 September 2020

What has been the effect on the morale of the rank and file of the Metropolitan Police in consequence of the introduction of direct-entry at inspector level, which overturns centuries of tradition that all police officers commence their careers at the rank of constable?

• Reference: 2020/2929
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 17 September 2020

To ask the Mayor how many times the Metropolitan Police have used Tasers over the last five calendar years and please categorise the reason for their use.

• Reference: 2020/2928
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 17 September 2020

To ask the Mayor how many road vehicles have been seized by the Metropolitan Police over the last five calendar years. Please categorise the reason for seizure, i.e. no insurance, failure to stop for officers, being involved in a road traffic collision, or believed to have been used in a criminal offence.

• Reference: 2020/2927
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 17 September 2020

On 9 August 2020, police stopped a vehicle being driven through Hackney, to speak to the driver of the vehicle. The Metropolitan Police subsequently stated that the stop was a mistake, caused by an officer incorrectly entering the car's registration number. From the footage available, Dawn Butler MP immediately announced to the officers that she was a Member of Parliament and subsequently accused the officers of racism. 1 Scotland Yard’s Deputy Commissioner Sir Steve House said officers could not have known Butler and the driver of the BMW car were black before they stopped it, because the windows were tinted...

• Reference: 2020/2926
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 17 September 2020

On 29 August 2020, Piers Corbyn was slapped with a £10,000 fine for his part in the 'Unite for Freedom' rally on Saturday which saw thousands descend on Trafalgar Square in a protest against extending the Covid emergency measures. The 73-year-old stated on Twitter that he had been handed the fixed penalty fine as ‘organiser’ 1. If Piers Corbyn was fined £10,000 for ‘breaking COVID laws’ surely the organisers of the Day of Ashura march and the #MillionPeopleMarch should face the same. If not, why not? 1 https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/trafalgar-square-antilockdown-ma…