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• Reference: 2019/20761
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

On the afternoon of Friday 29 November, officers from the Metropolitan Police shot dead Usman Khan, who had stabbed two people to death on London Bridge. He had been released from prison after serving less than half of a 16-year sentence for serious terrorism offences. Three hours later, Assistant Commissioner for Specialist Operations Neil Basu stood outside New Scotland Yard and stated that he couldn't possibly speculate about the motives behind the attack. 1 Given that the police must have known within five minutes of killing him who Mr Khan was, how does Mr Basu’s statement make any rational sense...

• Reference: 2019/20961
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

It is great that the new Public London Charter will be embedded in your new London Plan. Could you update us on how it is being drawn up and when we can expect it to be published?

• Reference: 2019/20962
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

The latest London Plan Annual Monitoring Report finds that “Bexley, Bromley, the City of London and Kingston upon Thames recorded no completions of affordable homes with three bedrooms or more” in 2017/18, with other boroughs also recording very low levels of family sized affordable housing. How will you make sure boroughs increase the delivery of family sized affordable homes across London, which is much needed?

• Reference: 2019/20963
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

From table 3.31 of the latest London Plan Annual Monitoring Report, could you provide the number of new conventional homes in the pipeline in each borough and tenure that are “family-sized”, i.e. have three or more bedrooms?

• Reference: 2019/20964
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

Can you provide a list of all planning applications which have been approved in the past five years which have included development on Green Belt or Metropolitan Open Land?

• Reference: 2019/20965
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

What progress have you made lobbying the Government to implement the reforms proposed in the GLA’s “Capital Gains” report, in particular the introduction of “Land Assembly Zones”? Will you work with the new Government to ensure the necessary legislative changes are enacted?

• Reference: 2019/20201
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

To ask the Mayor, at what point did the Metropolitan Police decide to adopt, especially with regard to sexual offences, an approach of what in my view, appears to be ‘always believe the victim’?

• Reference: 2019/20202
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

On 15 October 2019, you tweeted: ‘I'm seeking further information from senior officers about the operational decision to impose a section 14 order on the Extinction Rebellion Autumn Uprising – and why this was necessary’. What response did you receive from the senior officers concerned?

• Reference: 2019/20203
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

I note the events of the morning of 17 October at Canning Town Underground Station, in which members of the public pulled two members of Extinction Rebellion off the roof of a tube train. Where were the police that morning?

• Reference: 2019/20204
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

To ask the Mayor what lessons have been learned by the Metropolitan Police from the activities of Extinction Rebellion in October 2019?