• 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?

• 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...

• 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?

• 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...

• Reference: 2019/8881
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 16 May 2019

In a Times article on 29 March 2019, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner and the Director-General of MI5 said: "A broader, multi-agency approach to managing the risk in communities posed by individuals linked to violent extremism can succeed where a more active, intrusive investigation might not. This means sharing intelligence with a wider range of partners than before, such as health and social services departments, to make use of local expertise. Several pilot projects are running with a view to introducing a national scheme." Are these information-sharing pilots happening in London, in which boroughs if so, and what consultation has occurred...

• Reference: 2019/8880
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 16 May 2019

What number and proportion of perpetrators arrested by the Metropolitan Police Service in London for racist or religious hate crime have been referred to the Prevent or Channel programmes? Could you provide this data broken down by year for each year from 2014 if it is available?

• Reference: 2019/8879
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 16 May 2019

What work is taking place a) in City Hall, b) within MOPAC, and c) within the Metropolitan Police Service to help local communities work together to challenge far-right activity and reduce hate crime?

• Reference: 2019/8878
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 16 May 2019

What training and work programmes are currently in place to support Metropolitan Police Service officers working in local communities and ward teams to tackle and prevent racist and religious hate crime and far-right extremism?

• Reference: 2019/8877
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 16 May 2019

What assessment have you made of the level of resources available across the GLA group of organisations to supporting victims of racist and religious hate crime caused by far-right extremism, challenging and working with perpetrators, and developing preventive strategies in local communities? Are you able to provide an approximate budget for this work and say whether you are working to increase it?

• Reference: 2019/8876
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 16 May 2019

Transport for London (TfL) owns some of the land at the Earls Court site, including the area around Lillie Bridge Depot and a part-share in the Earls Court Partnership, which owns the land where Exhibition Centres 1 and 2 once stood. Will you and TfL support meanwhile use for these areas to boost local footfall?