• Reference: 2017/2344
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 22 June 2017

I note the announcement on 31 May 2017 by the Metropolitan Police, inviting graduates of all backgrounds to apply for trainee detective roles, in a bid to address the current shortfall in investigators. However, candidates must possess a degree. Surely this requirement marginalises quality candidates who have not been able to afford a university education, thus limiting the pool of applicants. I would also be interested to learn how having a university degree can be considered anything like a substitute for the knowledge, skills and policing experience, essential to the role of detective.

• Reference: 2017/2343
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 22 June 2017

Is the increase in the number of accidents involving passengers on the Tube to 4,928 last year, an eleven per cent increase from 2015, being caused by a combination of overcrowding and fewer staff?

• Reference: 2017/2342
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 22 June 2017

With the Met being forced to shed hundreds of police officers, for how long can the Mayor continue to claim that London is 'the safest global city in the world'?

• Reference: 2017/2341
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 22 June 2017

To ask the Mayor a), how many uniformed Metropolitan Police officers and civilian staff are currently working full-time on the investigation of 'hate crime' and b), given that the Met apparently does not possess the resources to track the whereabouts of 400 returned Jihadis, why is this so-called crime - which requires no evidence, a policing priority.

• Reference: 2017/2340
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 22 June 2017

Now that Article 50 has been triggered, will you remove the flag of the European Union from outside City Hall, as the majority of people in both England and the United Kingdom voted to leave, and it is inappropriate for the Mayor of our capital city to fly the flag of a foreign power?

• Reference: 2017/2339
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 22 June 2017

How much money does TfL estimate that it loses every year because of the fraudulent use of Freedom Passes?

• Reference: 2017/2338
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 22 June 2017

What are you doing to stop the fraudulent use of Freedom Passes, as exemplified in the recent article in Get West London?

• Reference: 2017/2337
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 22 June 2017

In the London Fire Brigade's recruitment process for firefighters in 2016, why was the ratio of BAME recruits to applicants significantly higher than the ratio of non-BAME recruits to applicants?

• Reference: 2017/2336
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 22 June 2017

In the London Fire Brigade's recruitment process for firefighters in 2016, why was the ratio of LGBT recruits to applicants significantly higher than the ratio of non-LGBT recruits to applicants?

• Reference: 2017/2335
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 22 June 2017

In the London Fire Brigade's recruitment process for firefighters in 2016, why was the ratio of disabled recruits to applicants significantly higher than the ratio of non-disabled recruits to applicants?