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• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 07 September 2023

Caroline Russell AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning, everyone. My question is for Enver Solomon. I met recently with the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants in preparation for this plenary. They told me about the experience of a woman who claimed asylum in the UK, was 33 weeks pregnant and living in asylum accommodation near Gatwick. She was being given food that was unsuitable during pregnancy. She complained about the food to the hotel and medical practitioners from her hospital also spoke to hotel managers saying that the food was unsuitable for her and her baby, but no...

• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 06 July 2023

Caroline Russell AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning to both of you. Commissioner, just last month TfL published an updated Cycling Action Plan. The Cycling Action Plan notes that the fear of collisions and road danger is the most common barrier to cycling. There are still many streets in London with too much fast-moving traffic to be safe for people who are walking and cycling. Many people tell me they are concerned the police are not doing enough to support the victims of road crime, particularly in investigations. Therefore, can you outline the responsibilities of the Road and Transport Policing...

• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 16 March 2023

Caroline Russell AM: Lyn, last time we spoke at the Budget and Performance Committee meeting before Christmas [2022], we established that the LLDC heat network runs on gas. It cannot meet the Mayor’s climate targets and it opens residents up to catastrophic energy bills. We discussed that you somehow have to get rid of all the gas and get heat pumps in to shift all that power to low carbon. I was very glad to hear you tell Assembly Member Cooper just now that Equans has started on the installation of air-source heat pumps. What analysis was done to rule...

• Reference: 2022/4361
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

How many journalists have been arrested in the course of their work by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) since 2016 broken down by year?

• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Caroline Russell AM: Thank you very much, Chair. My question is for the Commissioner. In October 2022, when you first appeared in front of the Police and Crime Committee, we spoke about diversion as opposed to criminalisation for the possession of cannabis. One of the things you said you did in your time in Surrey back in 2011 was “to be one of the driving forces nationally in building a different approach with out-of-court disposals.” You described how that eventually became community resolutions. It is clear that you see the benefits of diversion for people who are stopped with cannabis...

• Reference: 2022/1746
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 09 June 2022

Now that the Elizabeth line has opened to passengers, will you review the decision not to provide fully publicly accessible loos at every station given that excellent public toilets would help make this line truly world class?

• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 09 June 2022

Caroline Russell AM: Commissioner, Crossrail has launched recently. I think we can all agree it is a great railway and it is great that it is fully accessible in the central section, but it should also be accessible to people who need to use a loo. Commissioner, when will you start retrofitting loos into all stations without toilets on the Elizabeth line?

• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 03 March 2022

Caroline Russell AM: I would like to address my questions to the Night Czar. Good morning, Amy. I would briefly like to talk to you about the work I have been doing on toilets in London. A few years ago you worked on a data‑led report that took an analytical look at the night‑time economy and people who work at night. It was some really valuable work and produced some good insights on the Living Wage at night, where data and information had been lacking. What the Health Committee has found is a similar vacuum of data on public toilets...

• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Caroline Russell AM: Commissioner, I know you are aware of the great work going on in Iceland reducing violence and murder. I mentioned it to you informally earlier this year. Between 2005 and 2018, Iceland recorded just 24 murders. Over the same time period, London recorded 1,862 murders. I know Iceland is much smaller than London, but even so, Iceland had 67 murders per million people in that time compared to London’s 210 per million people; that is three times as many in London. I am wondering if you have looked at what police are doing in other countries, particularly...

• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 11 November 2021

Caroline Russell AM: Lyn, this is a question for you and I would like to talk about the toilets. This is an issue that the [London Assembly’s] Health Committee has been investigating and we are going to be publishing our report next week. From the feedback that we have received and from the available data on the issue, we know that London is very short of loos. The Mayor has laid out some clear direction in his new London Plan on toilets, although he has not actually stipulated the numbers of toilets that we need. Can you outline the provision...