• Reference: 2020/2917
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 17 September 2020

To ask the Mayor how many people have been arrested and charged for shoplifting in the Metropolitan Police District over the last five calendar years.

• Reference: 2020/2916
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 17 September 2020

I note Haringey Borough Council are setting in hand the removal of the name of Rhodes from Rhodes Avenue Primary School - even though it was named after the philanthropist Thomas Rhodes, the great-uncle of Cecil Rhodes, the person who donated the land for the school, which today would cost tens of millions, who had no historical links to colonialism. Is this development a harbinger of the kind of decision-making we can expect from your Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm?

• Reference: 2020/2915
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 17 September 2020

On 1 September 2020, Extinction Rebellion commenced ten days of action across the UK, to protest against climate change. In London, this has led to severe traffic delays, as the capital attempts to return to normality after Lockdown. Various stunts are taking place, including a ‘theatrical’ display on ‘how the climate crisis is causing death’, and a silent protest outside Buckingham Palace. Last year, more than 1,700 arrests were made during Extinction Rebellion’s ten-day ‘Autumn Uprising’, which saw major disruption across the UK and large parts of central London blocked off. How much longer will Londoners have to put up...

• Reference: 2020/2914
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 17 September 2020

I note the report in the Daily Telegraph of 7 July 2020, which stated: ‘Kit Malthouse, the policing minister, is writing to chief constables saying the theft of goods valued up to £200 from a shop should be prosecuted as a criminal offence.’ 1 Has the Metropolitan Police decided that the shoplifting of goods of the value of less than £200 would not be prosecuted, if so who, when and why? 1 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/07/07/victims-burglaries-assaults…

• Reference: 2020/2911
• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 17 September 2020

Will you publicly support the Home Secretary’s call to defend press free speech and support calls to toughen the law with Extinction Rebellion criminals potentially facing a 5 year prison sentence?

• Reference: 2020/2910
• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 17 September 2020

Please provide a comparison table with quantifiable numbers between the New York state USA programme of renewable energy measures versus the GLA's?

• Reference: 2020/2909
• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 17 September 2020

Do you as Mayor think it is morally right for a national energy provider operating in London to send the following letter to a long term homeowner- not a new home (I quote red title) “ We have a legal requirement to change your meter. Please contact us”. The letter says in a bold black box (which this homeowner finds sinister) “What happens if I don’t do anything about this letter? By law we have to come and change your meter. This work is very important to us and to you, helping to keep you safe.If we don’t hear from...

• Reference: 2020/2908
• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 17 September 2020

Journalist Michael Gillard, formerly of the Sunday Times published a book "Legacy: Gangsters, Corruption and the Olympics (2019). It makes disturbing reading, naming an "untouchable" criminal too dangerous for the Met to take on. Will you make representations to the Commissioner on these allegations?

• Reference: 2020/2907
• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 17 September 2020

Does the MPS provide training to all police officers on criminal exploitation?

• Reference: 2020/2906
• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 17 September 2020

It has been reported that that criminals are increasingly targeting girls for county lines exploitation because they are less likely to be intercepted by the police. In those cases, criminals often form romantic relationships with the girls they are targeting for exploitation with the purpose of exerting control over them in the future. What specifically are you and the MPS doing about this?