• Reference: 2025/2206
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

In February 2025, the Roma Support Group published their report, Roma housing in London: Barriers and inequalities. What learning did you take from this report and what action are you taking on its recommendations to the GLA?

• Reference: 2025/2205
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Transport for London’s (TfL) portfolio agreement means they can propose 35 per cent affordable housing on a public land development without the need for viability testing, rather than the standard 50 per cent for developments on public land. Many of their schemes have come forward with 35 per cent, or slightly higher at 40 per cent, meaning future schemes will have to provide much higher than proportions of affordable housing to hit their 50 per cent target. How are you ensuring Londoners get the best use of public land by holding TfL to their targets, and when do you intend...

• Reference: 2025/2204
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Thank you for your answer to 2024/3949, in which you reiterated the need for a licensing scheme to regulate short-term lets in London. Central London Forward’s recent report, Short Term Lets in Central London, shows how the problem of short-term lets is becoming even more acute. According to the report, one in 32 London homes were used as short-term lets last year. Regulating this sector, even temporarily, could unlock a significant amount of housing stock overnight to meet housing need. Do you endorse the recommendations in this report, and will you take their asks to Government?

• Reference: 2025/2203
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

What criteria does the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) use when deciding to ask the court to consider a Criminal Behaviour Orders (CBO) or Knife Crime Prevention Orders (KCPO) with conditions relating to music? Is there a policy in place in relation to this?

• Reference: 2025/2202
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

How many Criminal Behaviour Orders (CBO) or Knife Crime Prevention Orders (KCPO) that the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) are aware of are currently in place which include conditions relating to the publication, production or performance of music?

• Reference: 2025/2201
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Is there any intention by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to transcribe or translate lyrics in projects and programmes such as Operation Domain, Project Alpha, and others and if so, how will the accuracy of such work be checked?

• Reference: 2025/2200
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has developed a catalogue of gang-related music known as Operation Domain and documents lyrics which are linked to serious violence offences. Could you tell me: a) what are the criteria on which officers determine whether lyrics are ‘linked to serious violence’, and b) if there is a process for the removal of content from the catalogue and what that process entails?

• Reference: 2025/2199
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

The Project Insight training programme was launched in 2021 by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) to “identify and train MPS personnel who have expertise in urban street gangs and slang.” Could you tell me: a) what training officers receive as part of the programme, b) specifically what training they receive that enables them to decode/translate and interpret slang and music using this slang, c) how long the training last and how is the expertise of the trained officers measured, d) who is the training delivered by and what credentials do trainers have, e) if there is any independent evaluation conducted...

• Reference: 2025/2198
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Does the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) undertake any monitoring of the effectiveness of Project Alpha. If so, what metrics does it use and what is the most recent outcome of this metrics in terms of measuring the effectiveness of Project Alpha?

• Reference: 2025/2197
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Could you: a) share with me the latest equality impact assessment for Project Alpha produced by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), and b) share any other steps taken to monitor the impact of the project on racialised communities?