• Reference: 2025/4250
• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 18 December 2025

Please provide the number of under-18s that the Met included within its Facial Recognition Watchlists for the last 5 years. Please break this number down by financial year.

• Reference: 2025/4249
• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 18 December 2025

Given the new powers of a number of metropolitan mayors across the country, how are you looking to work together better and strengthen your lobby efforts to challenge the Treasury?

• Reference: 2025/4248
• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 18 December 2025

Data from MOPAC and reported through the London Policing Board’s Data Dashboard, shows that LGBT+ individuals have been less content with the Met in five of six categories in the past 22 quarters. Are you undertaking any initiatives specifically with the LGBT+ community or with LGBT+ victims of crimes to get a deeper understanding of the issues and how to tackle them?

• Reference: 2025/4247
• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 18 December 2025

Under what criteria did the Metropolitan Police’s decision to procure SandCats from Israeli defence company Plasan meet ethical guidelines, including human rights impact assessments?

• Reference: 2025/4246
• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 18 December 2025

Given that the Government on 25 November 2025 confirmed that it has backed Heathrow Airport's £49 billion expansion and upgrade plan as the basis for adding a new runway, what actions are you new taking to challenge the Government on this?

• Reference: 2025/4245
• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 18 December 2025

Have you started conversations to advocate for an increase in the NICC Grant for the coming financial year?

• Reference: 2025/4244
• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 18 December 2025

I understand new information-sharing agreements have been signed between the Met and 16 Business Crime Reduction Partnerships and Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) across London. Please provide a list of the 16 partners involved and a list of the type of details being shared under these agreements.

• Reference: 2025/4243
• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 18 December 2025

I understand the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime had a meeting on 15 October 2025 together with the Deputy Mayor for Business and Growth, Florence Eshalomi MP, Lambeth Council, and the MPS to discuss policing and safety issues with LGBTQ+ venue owners in Vauxhall. What points were taken away from this meeting and what actions will be taken following this meeting?

• Reference: 2025/4242
• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 18 December 2025

Please provide the total amount for each of the previous 5 financial years of any funding the Met Police has paid to officers that were dismissed from their roles.

• Reference: 2025/4241
• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 18 December 2025

It has been reported that underperforming senior officers at Scotland Yard are being offered a voluntary exit scheme, which offers financial incentives to leave Britain’s largest police force before major changes take effect. How much funding has the Met Police ringfenced for this exercise?