• Reference: 2019/4083
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 25 February 2019

To ask the Mayor what plans (if any) the Metropolitan Police has to use crime-prediction software and how it intends to address transparency concerns about such technology?

• Reference: 2019/4082
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 25 February 2019

To ask the Mayor how much taxpayers’ money he has donated over the last two years to the campaign group The3Million, which is calling for a second referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union?

• Reference: 2019/4080
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 25 February 2019

The use of Section 60 in the Met has risen as violence levels spiked during 2018. The efficacy of this approach, and the proportionality of borough-wide Section 60s, have been questioned. Members of the Assembly’s Policing and Crime Committee have heard suggestions that those most likely to be involved in serious knife crime would be least likely to fall foul of Section 60 powers, along with queries as to whether ‘flooding’ areas with police might provide a sufficient deterrent effect in itself. What are the advantages of using Section 60 over a significantly increased police presence with access to their...

• Reference: 2019/4079
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 25 February 2019

MOPAC recently published its Youth Voice survey, gathering the views of over 7,000 people aged 11 to 16 about the crime and safety issues that affect them. However, MOPAC’s report notes that as the survey was distributed via schools it “may have missed the views of young people not in formal education, including home-schooled children, those who have been excluded, young offenders, and those who regularly truant or go missing.” How will MOPAC be gathering the views of those young people most vulnerable to crime and victimisation, such as those not in education, or young offenders?

• Reference: 2019/4078
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 25 February 2019

To ask the Mayor how much taxpayers’ money the GLA has paid the PR agency Freud Communications in the financial years 2016/17, 2017/18 and the current financial year and what specifically has been the purpose of this expenditure?

• Reference: 2019/4077
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 25 February 2019

To ask the Mayor how many press officers are currently employed by his office?

• Reference: 2019/4076
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 25 February 2019

Will you consider granting Police Community Support Officers the power to issue fixed penalty notices to drivers exceeding traffic speed limits in London?

• Reference: 2019/4075
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 25 February 2019

Decision ADD2320 approved expenditure of £20,000 to match-fund the independent Windrush Justice Fund. While the fund will be administered independently, there will be GLA representation on an advisory board. Will you ensure that organisations receiving funding make the guidelines for receiving support clear so that there is no repeat of the case of Willow Sims from Lewisham ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47119070)?

• Reference: 2019/4074
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 25 February 2019

Given there are approximately 2,600 single decker buses, with fewer than 200 operating in central London, only 7.7% of the single decker bus fleet is expected to be electric or hydrogen by 2020. Why must Londoners wait another sixteen years, until 2035, before the full single decker bus fleet has made the switch?

• Reference: 2019/4073
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 25 February 2019

If the RV1 route is scrapped, it has been suggested that two of the hydrogen fuel cell buses would be deployed on routes elsewhere while the remaining eight are scrapped. What is the reason for this?