• Reference: 2017/2676
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 13 July 2017

Gun crime offences in London surged by 42% in the last year, according to official statistics. The Metropolitan Police's figures showed there were 2,544 gun crime offences from April 2016 to April 2017, compared to 1,793 offences from 2015 until 2016. Can the Mayor reassure Londoners that the Met is going to turn this disturbing increase around and get guns off our capital's streets.

• Reference: 2017/2675
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 13 July 2017

To ask the Mayor what proportion of Metropolitan Police resources and manpower are permanently devoted to national or Home Office tasking, rather than London policing, and what sums are reimbursed annually to MPS in consequence?

• Reference: 2017/2674
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 13 July 2017

To ask the Mayor what steps are being taken to procure fire appliances with greater reach than those currently in service with the LFB? The tallest aerial platform deployed at the recent fire at the 24-storey Grenfell Tower in north Kensington was borrowed from Surrey Fire and Rescue Service and with a reach of 138 feet, it is the tallest in the country and yet, was unable to reach the top floors of the building, which stands at nearly 230 feet.

• Reference: 2017/2673
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 13 July 2017

To ask the Mayor what representations he has made to the Home Secretary about getting the political wing of Hezbollah named as a proscribed organisation, given that Hezbollah itself insists that there is no distinction between its military and political wings.

• Reference: 2017/2672
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 13 July 2017

To ask the Mayor how many people were arrested at the annual Al Quds Day March in central London on Sunday 19 June, for what offences and how many were charged?

• Reference: 2017/2671
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 13 July 2017

I note that the Jewish Chronicle in their edition of 21 June reported that the Metropolitan Police had launched an investigation into the rally leader Nazim Ali, over possible hate crimes and the display of Hezbollah flags at the Al Quds Day March on 19 June 2017. What was the outcome of this investigation?

• Reference: 2017/2670
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 13 July 2017

To ask the Mayor how many complaints and hate incident reports the Metropolitan Police recorded in relation to this year's Al-Quds Day March.

• Reference: 2017/2669
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 13 July 2017

On Sunday 19 June, I witnessed hundreds of anti-Israeli protesters marching through the streets of central London on their annual Al Quds Day demonstration, convened by the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), a British Muslim organisation, with close ties to the Iranian regime. At a rally outside the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square after the march, one speaker blamed the recent tragic fire at west London's Grenfell Tower on "Zionists", claiming that "Some of the biggest supporters of the Conservative Party are Zionists," "They are responsible for the murder of the people in Grenfell. The Zionist supporters of the Tory...

• Reference: 2017/2668
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 13 July 2017

To ask the Mayor what assessment he has made of the impact of the 1 April 2017 business rates revaluation on businesses in London's West End.

• Reference: 2017/2667
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 13 July 2017

In Mayor's Question 2017/0342, I asked you what progress had been made in persuading London's professional football clubs to pay all of their staff the London Living Wage. I would ask you to revisit the response provided, which would appear to relate only to London's five Premiership clubs, rather than all of London's 13 professional football clubs.