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Information on estate regeneration projects on the GLA website

  • Reference: 2019/8891
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 16 May 2019
Information about positive ballots and GLA-approved exemptions was last added to the GLA website in December 2018. How often is new information added to these web pages?

Reporting of accessible housing in the London Development Database

  • Reference: 2019/8890
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 16 May 2019
Accessible housing is only reported overall for each development and not for each individual home in the London Development Database, making it hard to analyse, for example, the number of accessible family homes being built. Will you ensure that more detailed analysis is possible in any new London Development Database data structure and reporting tools?

Borough knife crime action plans

  • Reference: 2019/8889
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 16 May 2019
Will you publish all the knife crime action plans produced in the past year by London boroughs?

Live facial recognition technology trial in Romford (3)

  • Reference: 2019/8888
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 16 May 2019
In answer to my question 2019/6099 you told me: “The Met Police assure me that people objecting to the use of this technology have not been treated as suspects.” However, according to witness accounts, as reported by the Independent on 31 January 2019, several people were stopped for covering their faces, contrary to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) public guidance: “Anyone can refuse to be scanned; it’s not an offence or considered ‘obstruction’ to actively avoid being scanned.” Do you share my concern that MPS guidelines appear to have been breached?

Live facial recognition technology strategy (2)

  • Reference: 2019/8887
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 16 May 2019
In answer to my question 2019/6098 you told me: “The Metropolitan Police is developing its strategic approach to live facial recognition (LFR) technology.” Is the Metropolitan Police Service already looking at operational use scenarios, beyond the trial stage? Could you provide details of any modelled scenarios?

Resources for the Roads and Transport Policing Command (4)

  • Reference: 2019/8886
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 16 May 2019
Thank you for your answer to my question 2019/6105. What is the current 2019-20 and planned 2020-21 budget for the Road and Transport Policing Command (RTPC)? And do you have an estimate of how much of this will be spent each year on roads policing while officers are diverted to the Violent Crime Taskforce?

Disproportionate use of tasers against BAME children

  • Reference: 2019/8885
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 16 May 2019
The Children’s Rights Alliance for England report, The State of Children’s Rights in 2018, published in March 2019, reported that tasers were used disproportionately against children from BAME backgrounds, with BAME children accounting for 68 per cent of tasers used against children by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), compared with 51 per cent in England. Do you share my concerns about this finding and what actions will you take to address this disproportionate use?

Stop and search evaluation (2)

  • Reference: 2019/8884
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 16 May 2019
In your answer to my question 2019/4134 you told me about the Youth Voice Survey, which I was aware of, but gave no details of any other methods of formal evaluation. Could you outline what methods are used to evaluate stop and search, for example whether police officers are interviewed or surveyed about the procedures they are following and the kinds of interactions they are having with members of the public during stop and search, and whether samples of body worn video captured during stop and search encounters are used to review and evaluate the positive or negative effects on...

LIFE Programme and youth diversion

  • Reference: 2019/8883
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 16 May 2019
To date, how many young people have completed the Local Intervention Fire Education (LIFE) programme that is run by the London Fire Brigade? Could you break this down by a) year, and b) the boroughs in which it was provided, and give details of plans for future provision in each area?

Concern Hubs trial and data protection

  • Reference: 2019/8882
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 16 May 2019
In a WIRED article on 2 April 2019, it was reported that a: "new system called the Concern Hub, headed by a central team at Scotland Yard that will liaise the Met and hubs in each of Greater London’s 32 boroughs, has already been undergoing an unpublicised trial in the capital." A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police Service was quoted, describing it as: "a new multi-agency diversion initiative” set to launch in south-east London in April, with a wider rollout across the city in the coming months, and saying that the aim is: “to safeguard young people at significant risk...
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