• Reference: 2018/2087
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 13 September 2018

Please provide the (a) average waiting times and (b) volume of calls for the Metropolitan Police's 999 telephone line between the hours of 9pm and 6am for the past two years, broken down per month.

• Reference: 2018/2086
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 13 September 2018

How many Business Crime Reduction Partnerships are currently in operation in London? How are you supporting these Partnerships?

• Reference: 2018/2085
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 13 September 2018

You've previously said that where a business is situated within a Business Improvement District there may be funding available for crime reduction measures. How much funding was made available for this in (a) 2016/17 and (b) 2017/18 for each Business Improvement District in London?

• Reference: 2018/2084
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 13 September 2018

Do you have any plans to develop a Business Crime Strategy for London?

• Reference: 2018/2083
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 13 September 2018

Please detail how much funding has been allocated from the Safer Neighbourhood Board Fund to each London Borough, in (a) 2016/17 and (b) 2017/18.

• Reference: 2018/2082
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 13 September 2018

Every year, each London Borough is allocated a ring-fenced sum of £5,200 from the Safer Neighbourhood Fund to support administration and management of the Safer Neighbourhood Boards. If a Board is not functioning, what happens to this money?

• Reference: 2018/2081
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 13 September 2018

Please list the dates of each Safer Neighbourhood Board's (a) last meeting and (b) public meeting.

• Reference: 2018/2080
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 13 September 2018

Did you respond to the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government's consultation 'Overcoming the barriers to longer tenancies in the private rented sector'? If so, what were your comments?

• Reference: 2018/2079
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 13 September 2018

In response to Question 2018/1734 in July, you told me that "Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) performance on Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks has improved immensely". Can you confirm, as exposed by the Sunday Times on 19 August 2018, that in the last six months of 2016, senior Metropolitan police officers decided to temporarily relax the vetting system after being criticised for delays? If so, how many cases were closed under this relaxed system and how can you assure members of the public that performance has not just improved by undertaking incredibly alarming shortcuts?

• Reference: 2018/2078
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 13 September 2018

Can you confirm, in relation to the roll-out of Basic Command Units, whether the merging of child protection functions has been delayed and as a result will not be merged until next year? Please provide an update as to when all child protection functions will be fully merged in Basic Command Units?