• Reference: 2024/3238
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

What qualitative information is your High Streets Data Service collecting to capture the social and cultural benefits of high streets and other retail clusters, beyond their economic impact?

• Reference: 2024/3237
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

In May 2023, you and the leader of Westminster Council called on the previous Government to devolve more powers to set higher rates of council tax on empty homes and make it easier for councils to take over empty homes using Empty Dwelling Management Orders (EDMOs). Are you satisfied with the changes brought in on 1 April 2024 this year enabling councils to double council tax for residences that have been empty for 12 months? If not, are you lobbying the new Government for more powers?

• Reference: 2024/3236
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

After the success of your European Londoners Hub that offered clear and impartial information about the EU Settlement Scheme, and other topics relevant to EU citizens in a post-Brexit Britain, how are you communicating the requirements of the Government’s e-visa scheme, which requires people to have an e-visa as proof of indefinite leave to remain, to Londoners?

• Reference: 2024/3235
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

The volume of reported antisemitic hate crime offences in London continues to be higher than before the October 2023 attacks took place. What non-policing actions are you and the partners you work with taking to reduce antisemitic hate crime offences experienced by London’s Jewish communities?

• Reference: 2024/3234
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

The volume of reported antisemitic hate crime offences in London continues to be higher than before the October 2023 attacks took place. How are you working with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) to reduce antisemitic hate crime offences experienced by London’s Jewish communities?

• Reference: 2024/3233
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

Thank you for your answer to my colleague’s question 2024/1217 where you said: “the next Annual Equality Report is currently being drafted by my Equalities team and will be ready for publication in May 2024.” Can you provide an update on when this will be published?

• Reference: 2024/3232
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

You have previously said at a Mayor’s Question Time meeting in March 2023 that children being strip searched should be ‘exceptional’. Could you explain how you and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) define ‘exceptional circumstances’ in this instance?

• Reference: 2024/3231
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

At the Police and Crime Committee meeting on 17 July 2024 your Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime said that it is important that there is a review of how the Public Order Act 2023 and its powers have been used by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and agreed with me that looking at the use of ‘illegal to conspire’ powers should be part of the review. When will you and the MPS review the use of the Public Order Act 2023 and other public order legislation such as the Public Order Act 1986?

• Reference: 2024/3230
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

After the publication of the Grenfell Inquiry Phase 2 Report you said: “Those responsible must now be immediately held to account for their systematic dishonesty, corporate greed, institutional indifference and neglect.” Given the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) says it will take them at least 12-18 months to review the report, are you satisfied that the MPS is doing all it can for timely justice?

• Reference: 2024/3229
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

The August 2024 report, Annual victims’ survey 2023, from the Victims’ Commissioner, found that 45 per cent of disabled victims who reported a crime to the police were dissatisfied, and that 14 per cent would not report a crime to the police again. What steps are you, MOPAC and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) taking to improve the experience of Disabled victims of crime?