• Reference: 2020/1652
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 18 June 2020

Due to reduced staff numbers some local authorities have left grass verges untrimmed, except for where vegetation is impeding sight lines. Will you encourage all London boroughs to continue, or introduce, this practice given the environmental gains, such as a reduced carbon footprint and an increased habitat for native flora and fauna?

• Reference: 2020/1651
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 18 June 2020

Further to my question 2018/0126, I note that Islington Council is using overcrowding advisors to offer households in the borough help and advice on managing overcrowded homes, and what realistic options could be available for them. Given the coronavirus lockdown will have exacerbated the stress of living in an overcrowded home for many families, when will you conduct a full survey of overcrowded homes down to ward level, so that help and advice can be targeted where it is needed the most?

• Reference: 2020/1650
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 18 June 2020

I understand that you and the Deputy Mayor for Planning, Regeneration and Skills recently wrote to the Government about Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) obligations. Will you share this letter?

• Reference: 2020/1649
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 18 June 2020

Government guidance issued on 13 May 2020, has told councils to allow small and medium-sized (SME) developers to defer their Section 106 and Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) obligations. Is this the right choice for London?

• Reference: 2020/1648
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 18 June 2020

Under what powers were officers from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) filming and photographing protestors, and asking them to provide their names, addresses and date of birth, before releasing them from areas that were being contained by police in Westminster, on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 June 2020? Is the MPS retaining this information and the associated images (still and moving) and if so, for what purposes?

• Reference: 2020/1647
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 18 June 2020

How many times have police horses been deployed for front line policing of mass gatherings, broken down into sports events, protests and other, in each financial year from 2015-16 to the current year? Could you also provide the total cost for each category in each year?

• Reference: 2020/1646
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 18 June 2020

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) is currently procuring new vehicles for their fleet, due to arrive from 2021. If the MPS is procuring new riot vehicles, will you seriously consider retiring police horses from riot policing?

• Reference: 2020/1645
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 18 June 2020

I have had a number of constituents contact me recently to give me their reports of witnessing alleged discriminatory police practices, in particular highlighting incidents in Lewisham and Lambeth. These have ranged from a young student being unfairly stopped and searched, to witnessing a distressing incident of a woman restrained by several officers. What is your message to Londoners who are losing their faith in the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) after witnessing disproportionate and aggressive policing tactics?

• Reference: 2020/1644
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 18 June 2020

In your answer to my question 2019/4137 on 25 February 2019 you told me that 17,000 Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officers had had training in unconscious bias. Could you tell me: a) how many officers in the MPS have now received unconscious bias training, b) when do you expect all officers to have received this training, and c) how often the training is repeated or refreshed?

• Reference: 2020/1643
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 18 June 2020

Data from the Fixed Penalty Notices (FPN) and Covid-19 Enforcement Report from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) show that black Londoners are more than twice as likely to have been issued with a fixed penalty notice under coronavirus restrictions than their proportion within the population. However, the Commissioner of the Metropolis said, at the London Assembly Police and Crime Committee meeting on 3 June 2020, “I have not gone back to them [police officers] and said ‘I am concerned about disproportionality please stop acting in this manner that will lead to disproportionality’ because I don’t see that as an issue...