• Reference: 2024/1857
• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 20 June 2024

Given the Met Commissioner’s recent bleak assessment of the pace of cultural change in the force due to budget restrictions (Report to the London Policing Board 4th June 2024) can you detail how are you actively lobbying Government to ensure the Met is properly funded? How do you plan to address this funding shortfall yourself?

• Reference: 2024/1856
• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 20 June 2024

The Met Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, confirmed earlier this month that the Metropolitan Police is heading for its lowest staffing levels in a decade by March next year. If you are not getting the additional funding from the Home Office, how will you tackle the recruitment gap which is impacting the Met’s plan to reform?

• Reference: 2024/1855
• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 20 June 2024

What percentage of 1) police officers in community policing and 2) their supervisors have less than 2 years of experience in their job? Please break down by BCU.

• Reference: 2024/1854
• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 20 June 2024

Large-scale protests in London last year cost £70 million. What has the cost been so far between January 2024 and end of May 2024?

• Reference: 2024/1853
• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 20 June 2024

Do you commit to the Young Londoners’ Manifesto 2024 outlining a series of asks for the next London Mayor and the Greater London Authority to make London the best city to grow up in?

• Reference: 2024/1852
• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 20 June 2024

A report by New London Architecture (NLA) on the development of tall buildings in London shows that London has 583 buildings of 20-storeys or more in its development pipeline, up from 236 when the first version of the report was published in 2014. Do you believe such a high level of new tall buildings is acceptable?

• Reference: 2024/1851
• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 20 June 2024

Have you further considered the suggestion made by Assembly Member Caroline Pidgeon MBE at the March 2024 Mayor’s Question Time about a 3rd report from the London Finance Commission (LFC) to produce options for fiscal devolution?

• Reference: 2024/1850
• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 20 June 2024

New data from British Transport Police (BTP) shows in 2023 a 33% increase in reported incidents of sexual offences and harassment in the capital. How are you responding to those figures to tackle this issue?

• Reference: 2024/1849
• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 20 June 2024

Given the new legislation on making recycling simpler and more consistent, how are you working with the boroughs to go above and beyond to improve London’s recycling rate which is the worst in England?

• Reference: 2024/1848
• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 20 June 2024

On 8 March 2024, your Deputy Mayor for Environment and Energy, Shirley Rodrigues, hosted a meeting for a delegation of elected politicians from Danish city and regional councils. At the meeting delegates from London and the Danish Regions explored London’s approach to green transition and sustainability as well as discussed London’s leadership in environment, air quality and climate change. What did you learn from the Danish delegation that could help London on its path to a greener and more sustainable future?