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Sale of Queen Mary's House by the NHS

  • Reference: 2018/1497
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 21 June 2018
Queen Mary's House in Hampstead is owned by the Royal Free Hospital and provides affordable housing for 52 nurses and other key workers. It is being marketed as a development opportunity and residents have been warned to look for other homes. Given your commitment to preserving existing affordable housing, and to making sure public land is used for homes people like nurses can afford, would you consider intervening either by helping to prevent this sell-off or by purchasing it via the GLA's programmes?

Ledbury Estate and engagement with residents

  • Reference: 2018/1496
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 21 June 2018
Your Good Practice Guide to Estate Regeneration asks that: "When developing estate regeneration proposals, councils and housing associations should always engage openly and meaningfully with those affected by the project from the outset," and says: "Residents should be closely involved in shaping the priorities for estate regeneration and options for achieving these priorities." Will you ensure that this guidance is followed in full for the Ledbury Estate in Southwark?

Sharing automated facial recognition information

  • Reference: 2018/1495
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 21 June 2018
Did the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) share photos from its biometric database with South Wales Police for its automated facial recognition watch list ahead of the Biggest Weekend Fringe event in Swansea?

Automated facial recognition and the Gangs Matrix

  • Reference: 2018/1494
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 21 June 2018
The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) response to a recent Freedom of Information request submitted by Big Brother Watch has revealed that 528 people have been on the facial recognition watch list, including not only people wanted for arrest but also "known criminals." Did any of the people on the watch list come from the (Trident) Gangs Matrix?

Trialling automated facial recognition

  • Reference: 2018/1493
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 21 June 2018
I understand that the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) automated facial recognition system has been used three times, at the 2016 and 2017 Notting Hill Carnivals and at Remembrance Sunday in 2017. According the MOPAC and MPS Oversight Board papers for 5 February 2018, the MPS still plans to test the technology at: "ten operational deployments in a range of different environments and scenarios." At which future events is the MPS planning to use this technology?

Notting Hill Carnival and automated facial recognition

  • Reference: 2018/1492
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 21 June 2018
The report Face Off, published by Big Brother Watch in May 2018, revealed that the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) use of automated facial recognition resulted in over 98% of matches wrongly identifying innocent members of the public. There have also been 102 false-positive 'matches', mainly from people who attended the Notting Hill Carnival. I am therefore pleased that the MPS has announced that it will not be trialling the automated facial recognition system again this year at Notting Hill Carnival. What were the reasons behind this decision?

London Victims Commissioner and young people (3)

  • Reference: 2018/1491
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 21 June 2018
Many community groups working with young people still don't know about the London Victims Commissioner. What communication material has been distributed across London to inform people of the London Victims Commissioner's role and services? Could you provide the locations and boroughs where this information has been distributed, and details of any visits to community groups that the Commissioner has made?

London Victims Commissioner and young people (2)

  • Reference: 2018/1490
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 21 June 2018
What programmes is the London Victims Commissioner working with or devising to support young Londoners who are victims of violence?

London Victims Commissioner and young people (1)

  • Reference: 2018/1489
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 21 June 2018
What support is available from the London Victims Commissioner to young people under the age of 25 who are victims of crime?

Young Londoners Fund and young people over 18

  • Reference: 2018/1488
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 21 June 2018
Are you prepared to provide funding from the Mayor's Young Londoners Fund to services that only work with young people over the age of 18?
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