• Reference: 2019/12043
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 20 June 2019

In August 2018, the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) announced that 600 portable fingerprint biometric devices would be rolled out to frontline officers. Since then, a) how many devices have been issued to officers, and b) how many fingerprint scans have been carried out in each month?

• Reference: 2019/12042
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 20 June 2019

At the UCL event, Learning from Police trials of Live Facial Recognition on 29 May 2019 the Metropolitan Police Senior Technologist acknowledged that their live facial recognition had shown notable gender bias towards women, misidentifying them at higher rates than men. On this basis alone, how can you allow the Metropolitan Police to continue using this technology, notwithstanding the additional significant human rights and privacy concerns with this technology?

• Reference: 2019/12041
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 20 June 2019

Table 2 of the London Policing Ethics Panel final report on live facial recognition, published in May 2019, showed that 29 per cent of Asian, 23 per cent of Black and 28 per cent of mixed ethnic groups would stay away from live facial recognition monitored events. Do you agree that it is unacceptable for these groups of Londoners to be disproportionately affected and deterred from attending public events?

• Reference: 2019/12039
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 20 June 2019

In May 2019, San Francisco, one of the most technology-friendly cities in the world, announced a complete ban on the police use of facial recognition. The San Francisco city legislature announced the ban on the basis that police use of facial recognition was so fundamentally invasive and inherently likely to endanger civil rights and civil liberties that it should never be used. Will you follow this leading example and prevent the use of intrusive and authoritarian police facial recognition in London?

• Reference: 2019/12038
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 20 June 2019

Campaigners tell me that HS2 Ltd is creating barriers to cycling, where a rebuilt bridge is proposed at Old Oak Common leaving it too narrow to permit cycleways. Will you use your influence via Transport for London (TfL) and the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC) to deliver protected cycle facilities along the length of Old Oak Common Lane and ensure any works by HS2 Ltd, local boroughs and other developers support this?

• Reference: 2019/12037
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 20 June 2019

Transport for London (TfL) has reported in its Quarter 4 performance report for 2018-19 an annual underspend for the cycling programme of £14 million. Will you provide the underspend for the wider cycling programme including the Healthy Streets portfolio, and update the table provided in answer to my question 2019/4120 to show how this further underspend is allocated to spending in future years?

• Reference: 2019/12036
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 20 June 2019

Thank you for your answer to my question 2018/5194. Could you list the sections of protected cycle route that have been delivered each year, and what programme they were delivered under, since the Cycle Vision programme began in 2013?

• Reference: 2019/12035
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 20 June 2019

Thank you for your answer to my question 2018/3044, in which you told me that you had delivered 11.5 km of properly protected cycle lanes as superhighways with 30 km of protected space across the Quietway and Mini Hollands programme. How many more kilometres of protected cycle lanes have you delivered since you gave me this answer in November 2018, and how many of these are on superhighway routes?

• Reference: 2019/12034
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 20 June 2019

Residents frustrated by a lack of temporary bus information during the closure of Hammersmith Bridge to buses have been posting their own maps at bus stops. Will Transport for London (TfL) urgently review its provision of information, including maps, so Londoners can get around while Hammersmith Bridge is closed to buses?

• Reference: 2019/12033
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 20 June 2019

In your response to my question 2019/8854 you cited changes by Transport for London (TfL) to improve public transport links. People crossing Hammersmith Bridge need buses that connect at each end but residents feel this has not been provided. Will TfL ensure that adequate capacity is provided for those still able to cross Hammersmith Bridge having reached it by bus?