• Reference: 2020/0395
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 24 February 2020

Sexual health services are important and should be easily accessible to all Londoners. Do you share my concern around the seeming reduction in the provision of sexual health services in London and how are you using your influence to ensure London Boroughs keep these vital services open and accessible?

• Reference: 2020/0394
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 24 February 2020

Can you explain the reasoning behind your Mayoral Decision to approve GLA Land and Property Ltd’s issuing of a roll-over of the contract for Lambeth Smith Hampton on the EastPlus project, worth £180,000, without any re-opening of the contract or competition?

• Reference: 2020/0393
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 24 February 2020

Can you provide a list of the funding streams OPDC is currently engaged in including central government funding schemes and schemes from other public sector bodies? These can include funding streams that the OPDC is: Currently bidding for; Intending to bid for; Or has successfully/unsuccessfully bid for in the last 12 months.

• Reference: 2020/0392
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 24 February 2020

I am deeply concerned that under existing plans for Brexit the government seem to be entirely abandoning the European Arrest Warrant. Can you provide the number of individuals arrested in London through the European Arrest Warrant since 2017 broken down by month and type of crime?

• Reference: 2020/0391
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 24 February 2020

Can you confirm whether the Met, as a matter of routine, gives a child in care or their social worker, any form of letter to tell them the status of an investigation, whether they are investigating, or are no longer investigating a crime reported by a child in care?

• Reference: 2020/0390
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 24 February 2020

Do you share the concerns outlined by numerous academics in recent reports and publications that Facial Recognition Technology discriminates against certain groups including ethnic minorities, trans people and young people? If this is the case how can you justify this being used on London’s streets?

• Reference: 2020/0389
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 24 February 2020

Are you comfortable with the Met using Facial Recognition Technology despite both the Surveillance Camera Commissioner and the Biometrics Commissioner calling for a moratorium on the use of Facial Recognition Technology until a detailed review can be undertaken?

• Reference: 2020/0388
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 24 February 2020

I do not feel simply handing out leaflets to people once their biometric data is already captured is sufficient in terms of ‘engagement’ when it comes to the use of Facial Recognition Technology. What further community engagement will the Met be undertaking as part of the use of Facial Recognition Technology?

• Reference: 2020/0387
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 24 February 2020

The only independent report conducted into the Met’s 2019 trial of live facial recognition technology (LFR), by Professor Peter Fussey and Dr Daragh Murray of the University of Essex’s Human Rights Centre, concluded that the technology was only accurate on 19% of occasions and had severe operational shortcomings that would be unlikely to hold up in court. Considering that the Met is now rolling this out as an operational tool, not as a trial, are you confident that all the operational failings and concerns outlined in the report referenced above have been resolved and mitigated?

• Reference: 2020/0386
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 24 February 2020

You have made clear you want the government to introduce a national legal framework for police forces using facial recognition technology. Are you comfortable with the Met using this technology without such a framework in place?