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• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 06 July 2016

Keith Prince AM: Thank you, Madam Chairman. I want to talk about special constables, but can I just, first of all, Mr Mayor, welcome your comments on the Rape Crisis centre. As you know, Redbridge is one of the Rape Crisis centres - or is the Rape Crisis centre - for East London. Can I just ask you to clarify, did you say that you are giving a clear commitment to continue the funding of the Rape Crisis centres?

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 06 July 2016

Shaun Bailey AM: Morning, Mayor, morning, Sir Bernard. I just wanted to quickly have a little talk about the night Tube. I, like most Londoners, am really looking to the notion of getting on the Tube at night; well done for that. A number of Londoners are slightly worried about the potential increase for anti-social behaviour and crime around particular stations. I know that 12 stations in particular have been highlighted by the British Transport Police (BTP). I just wonder - I address these comments to the Mayor - what can be done to track any change in behaviour around...

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 06 July 2016

Gareth Bacon AM: Thank you, Madam Chairman. I have questions to the Commissioner initially. The subject of the water cannon has aroused huge amounts of excited comment in the last couple of years; I know you are very familiar with that. I do not have particular feelings one way or the other, but I am interested in how decisions are made. Is it true, Commissioner, that it was the MPS that made the case for a water cannon to be purchased for London and the previous Mayor acceded to that request?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 06 July 2016

Joanne McCartney AM: Yes, thank you, Mr Mayor. Perhaps I could just start by saying that this body actually did look at the issue of water cannon and on a cross-party basis we urged the previous Mayor not to go ahead. That was after we had taken three lengthy examination sessions and looked at the evidence, so I am very pleased that that was part of your manifesto.

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 06 July 2016

Len Duvall AM: Thank you very much. My question is to the Commissioner first, but the Mayor may wish to comment on it at the end, but I am pushed for time. It is about the budgets and the current issue. Can you just remind the Assembly, I think you might have mentioned it earlier, what is the current state of play in the cuts that you have to find from the previous regime of austerity, if I can call it that?

• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 06 July 2016

Peter Whittle AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor, good morning, Commissioner. Just to take you back to the priority of hate crime, which obviously, as we know, has been increasing in London for a long time, I wonder if you could just clarify some things for me on the particular figure that you quoted of 599 that has recently come up over the period of the referendum, because I think there is a lot of confusion about this. Could you break that figure down in the sense of what kind of hate crime? Are we talking here about assaults maybe on...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 06 July 2016

Andrew Boff AM: Mr Mayor, will you read and respond to the GLA Conservatives’ report, #reporthate, published in June last year, which identified serious weaknesses in the police’s capacity to process reports of hate crime online?

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 06 July 2016

Navin Shah AM: My first question is to the Commissioner about residency requirements initiative. What is your assessment of the impact of the London residency requirement on the BAME diversity of the MPS frontline?

• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 02 December 2015

Fiona Twycross AM: I wanted to correct the impression that was given that the way it has been operating at the moment has been simply about opposition Members [on LFEPA] getting at the Mayor. The fact is that the Mayor has insisted on managing by Direction even when there has not been an impasse, including on issues over which there has been cross‑party agreement by LFEPA Members. I just wondered if you could focus a little bit on what impact the Mayor’s insistence on management by Direction has had. To be honest, we have had Directions on all sorts of...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 02 December 2015

Richard Tracey AM: Chairman, probably this is one for you as the politician of the two of you. The fact is, surely, that government, particularly local government, has been changing very considerably over recent years. That is accepted. The straight point to you: is it not correct that perhaps LFEPA in its current form is out of date and past its sell‑by date, really?