• Reference: 2014/2771
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 23 July 2014

Do you have any sympathy with the argument, for example used by RIBA recently, that some Green Belt land could be released (or perhaps reconfigured without net loss) to make some available for house-building. The argument is premised on the fact that much green belt was designated as a cordon but is of poor quality and has little intrinsic landscape, heritage or conservation merit.

• Reference: 2014/2770
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 23 July 2014

Can you detail exactly what steps you will take between now and May 2016 to assist ethnic minority graduates find employment - across London in general and across all the organisations that you have statutory oversight of?

• Reference: 2014/2769
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 23 July 2014

Thank you for your comments at Mayor's Question Time on 2 July 2014, where you agreed with my concerns about young, ethnic minority graduates having a harder time finding employment than their white British peers. Can you detail exactly what steps you have taken each year from when you became Mayor in 2008 to the present day to assist ethnic minority graduates find employment - across London in general and across all the organisations that you have statutory oversight of?

• Reference: 2014/2757
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 23 July 2014

In the light of the comments made by the judge in the case involving claims made by women deceived into relationships with undercover officers (Mr Justice Bean in Dil and others v CPM), that relying on the policy of NCND (Neither Confirming Nor Denying the identity of undercover officers) in the case of Jim Sutton/Boyling is "simply unsustainable", and in the case of Bob Lambert/Robinson 'NCND can no longer be relied on." Is it not absurd that you cannot answer the following question: Please can you confirm that Jim Sutton/Boyling and Bob Lambert/Robinson were undercover officers employed with the Metropolitan...

• Reference: 2014/2756
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 23 July 2014

Could you update me on the progress establishing a pan-London domestic violence service? Has the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime feasibility study into this issue finished and has commissioning of services begun?

• Reference: 2014/2755
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 23 July 2014

Will you give a commitment that in the event that the Home Secretary refuses to license water cannon you will not sell them onto a repressive regime with a poor record on human rights?

• Reference: 2014/2754
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 23 July 2014

Why was it that the Metropolitan Police refused to confirm the receipt of water cannon because of 'security reasons' but the German Federal Police were able to inform the media that the handover of the cannon had taken place? Please could you elaborate on what the 'security reasons' were and what risk, if any, was created as a result of the German Federal Police's confirmation?

• Reference: 2014/2753
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 23 July 2014

Is it regular behaviour for a Metropolitan Police contractor to be given a £285,000 additional payment because they have under-estimated the work on an ICT contract? What is to stop other contractors from under bidding for contracts and then asking for additional top up payments to cover 'excess' work?

• Reference: 2014/2752
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 23 July 2014

Thank you for your answer to my question 2014/2369. How am I able to ask questions about the oversight and policies in place around the deployment of undercover police officers if I am not allowed to be told which units within the Metropolitan Police Service deploy them?

• Reference: 2014/2751
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 23 July 2014

The Metropolitan Police has previously confirmed in response to question 2014/2364 that "There are approximately 2,511 nominal records currently held within the NDEDIU, which are subject to continuous review with the view to deleting any records which bear no relevance to our policing purposes." Please confirm how a 'nominal record' differs from an 'intelligence record' held by the NDEDIU?