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• 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?