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• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Léonie Cooper AM: I would like to start with the Commissioner, if I may. Becoming a police officer does convey a certain set of powers, so we need to be certain that the people who are going to exercise those powers are people who are fit and proper to do that and are trained, but also do not hold attitudes that would lead them to use those powers in an inappropriate way. Unfortunately, it is one of the things that women are looking at particularly, but we have also seen previous examples. The [investigation into the] [Stephen] Port murders show...

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Siân Berry AM: Carrying on my colleague’s theme of targeting zero deaths, I want to turn to enforcement on the roads and the proactive policing support that there is for Vision Zero there. Commissioner, I am keen to understand how transparent you are on this road danger work. Looking at the publications from TfL, its last Roads Policing Enforcement Statistics Bulletin was with data for 2018/19 and was published over a year ago now in November 2020. Briefly, when will we see an update to this bulletin and will it have up-to-date data from the MPS?

• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Krupesh Hirani AM: My questions are relating to the impact of budgets and police funding. Firstly, to the Commissioner, this year the Government chose to freeze the wages of police officers earning more than £24,000, which is effectively a pay cut given inflation at the moment is at 4.1%. Sadly, we all know one of the negatives about living in our wonderful city is the cost of living and the impact that housing costs have on Londoners. What impact will freezing pay have on your workforce both in terms of morale - we all know about the representation of the...

• Question by: Sakina Sheikh
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Sakina Sheikh AM: Homophobic hate crime in this city continues to be a real concern with the number of incidents in recent months surpassing any previous month on record. We have heard from some of my colleagues around the rise in antisemitic incidents and I wanted to shed a specific light on attacks on East and South Asian Londoners, which obviously increased during the pandemic, which was not helped by hateful comments made by the former United States President. My question, first, to you, Commissioner, is: have you done any analysis as to why we are seeing such a rise...

• Question by: Elly Baker
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Elly Baker AM: I have a couple of questions about domestic abuse for the Commissioner. We have very little time, though, just to let you know. If we could have short answers, that would be great. The first one is around the use of Domestic Violence Protection Orders (DVPOs) and Domestic Violence Protection Notices (DVPNs), as well as the use of Clare’s Law, which varies significantly across London. We are aware that in Barking there are twice as many DVPOs and DVPNs used and almost four times the amount of Clare’s Law right-to-know disclosures than in Barnet. Do you know...

• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 02 September 2021

Krupesh Hirani AM: My question is to Andy Byford. What action are you taking to ensure that both staff and passengers remain safe from abuse as more and more people return to the TfL network?

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 02 September 2021

Unmesh Desai AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor. Good morning, Commissioner. My question is to you, Commissioner. The Mayor very rightly in his opening statement talked about safety being at the heart of everything that TfL does in all aspects of its work. My colleague Assembly Member Hirani has asked you questions about safety across the network but I want to ask you a specific question about safety on the Docklands Light Railway (DLR), which is a London-wide issue although most of the DLR is in my City and East London constituency. Recently, Stephen Timms, the Member of Parliament (MP) for...

• Question by: Sem Moema
• Meeting date: 02 September 2021

Sem Moema AM: Nice to see you both. My question is around e-scooters and it is to Andy. I just wondered if you could provide an update on TfL’s rental e-scooter trial that is taking place in conjunction with London Councils, some boroughs and the Government? I would really appreciate understanding how it is being evaluated before the trial comes to an end next year.

• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 02 September 2021

Dr Onkar Sahota AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor. Good morning, Commissioner. My question is to you, Commissioner. First of all, I want to congratulate all the stations that have been opened up for Crossrail. They are beautiful and they are improving step-free access, particularly the one in Southall, where we have the Punjabi language signage, which reflects the cultural value of Southall. I want to congratulate TfL for doing that. I also want to ask - this caused a lot of excitement - when we will see Crossrail fully functioning. Can you give us an update on Crossrail, please?

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 02 September 2021

Unmesh Desai AM: Good morning Commissioner and to you, Mr Mayor. If Assembly Member Dr Sahota had not mentioned Crossrail, then I certainly was going to. I went to Whitechapel Station last week for the opening. I have three points about the station. Firstly, it is great, absolutely great; airy, spacious, bright. People, locals, members of the public were taking pictures on their mobiles and so on. Genuinely there was a sense of excitement among so many locals. I know that it was covered worldwide through various media outlets. We saw Crossrail trains going by as well with their trial...