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• Reference: 2020/4314
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

The Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) publishes a detailed factsheet on the accessibility of existing homes as part of the English Housing Survey (EHS) (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-housing-survey-2018-ac…). The data is not broken down by region because of the small sample size. However, for other measures, such as for overcrowding as part of the Strategic Housing Market Assessment, the GLA carries out analysis of EHS data at a London level, based on a three-year rolling average. Have your officers done the same with this detailed accessibility data? If so, could you share this analysis with me and, if not, could...

• Reference: 2020/4315
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

In your answer to question 2020/3826 you state: “In September I wrote to more than 40 building owners who have failed to begin the remediation of unsafe ACM cladding demanding that they accelerate their plans to remove cladding and supply my officers with a timetable for action. Since then 13 of these buildings have begun remediation work.” Could you share with me the timetable for the 13 buildings on which work has started, as well as what action you are taking in respect of the owners of the 27 buildings that have yet to start remediation of unsafe cladding?

• Reference: 2020/4316
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

In your answer to my question 2019/19697, you told me that it was not possible to provide data on how many times Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officers used spit hoods in conjunction with other restraints in custody suites. Will you now reconsider making this data available, given that the importance of transparency and public access to data is highlighted in your new Action Plan?

• Reference: 2020/4317
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

Could you give an update on the progress of the young persons’ action group being established by the Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) and how it plans to work in partnership with the London Youth Assembly?

• Reference: 2020/4318
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

Will the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) be the lead force at COP26?

• Reference: 2020/4319
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

Could you provide data showing the number of arrests under coronavirus legislation, as well as the number of attendees, during each of the main protests in 2020 in central London held in support of a) Black Lives Matter, b) Extinction Rebellion, and c) Groups opposing coronavirus measures?

• Reference: 2020/4320
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

A new partnership led by Sheffield Hallam University, and including South Yorkshire’s Violence Reduction Unit (VRU), is to investigate the impact on young people of using images of knives in communications and police work, including whether it may cause more harm than good (https://www.shu.ac.uk/news/all-articles/latest-news/study-launched-impa…). Will you, the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) or your own VRU be reviewing the use of knife images by the MPS in a similar way in the near future?

• Reference: 2020/4323
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

To ask the Mayor how many Section 35 Dispersal Orders were issued in the Metropolitan Police District over the last three years and to tabulate your response by borough.

• Reference: 2020/4324
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

To ask the Mayor what has been the Metropolitan Police’s compliance level in handling Freedom of Information requests over the last three years?

• Reference: 2020/4325
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

What effect is the Metropolitan Police’s decision to abandon its tried and tested regime of ensuring all officers start at constable and working their way up through the ranks, currently having on the morale of the force’s junior ranks?