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  • Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm (2)

    • Reference: 2020/4068
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 19 November 2020
    Further to that same guidance from Historic England, can the Mayor confirm that he would follow it and not support the removal of the statues of Thomas Guy and Sir Robert Clayton from Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospitals?

  • Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm (3)

    • Reference: 2020/4069
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 19 November 2020
    Given the Government’s plans to give the Secretary of State for Housing the final say on planning applications relating to statues, due to their national significance, does the Mayor recognise that public statues in the capital have a national significance and agree that their future is not entirely a matter for local/devolved government?

  • Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm (4)

    • Reference: 2020/4070
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 19 November 2020
    Your press release of 28 July 2020, announces the formation of a ‘Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm.’ What do you understand to be the meaning of the term ‘public realm’ - most specifically in the context of private property, non-public spaces and government-owned land?

  • Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm (5)

    • Reference: 2020/4071
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 19 November 2020
    In your press release of 28 July 2020 you state: ‘The Mayor is creating the Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm to help ensure London’s achievements and diversity are suitably reflected. Statues, plaques and street names largely reflect Victorian Britain…’ As a statement of fact, it is demonstrably untrue that London’s statues, plaques and street names largely reflect Victorian Britain, a period of only 60 years. London has a well-documented commemorative and location-naming timeline of at least a thousand years, which also stretches long beyond the Victorian era. Why would you suggest otherwise?

  • Anti-Racism

    • Reference: 2020/4072
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 19 November 2020
    On 13 October 2020, you declared City Hall ‘a committedly anti-racist organisation’ 1 . Given the present uncertainty surrounding the future location of the Greater London Authority, I would be grateful if you could clarify for me if that designation also applies to the GLA offices at Union Street and the Crystal Building at Royal Victoria Dock, or will those buildings be the subject of future anti-racist mayoral pronouncements? 1 https://www.london.gov.uk/press-releases/mayoral/mayor-declares-city-ha…

  • Bishopsgate Road Closure

    • Reference: 2020/4073
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 19 November 2020
    Given that taxis cannot now travel along the whole length of Bishopsgate, what is the alternative route from Guy’s Hospital to Liverpool Street Station which taxis must take, and what is the taxi meter cost and journey time for the proposed route?

  • Taxi and Private Hire Trade

    • Reference: 2020/4074
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 19 November 2020
    Given the new safety law banning touching mobile phone devices when driving, how will TfL ensure that Private Hire drivers comply with this, so that they do not touch any mobile devices to take a new job, or search for directions, unless they are stationary?

  • Brexit Negotiations and Impact in London (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 15 October 2020
    David Kurten AM: Mr Mayor, it seems like we are back in 2016 with all of these statements you are making and the points you are putting to the Assembly. We have had four and a half years since the referendum and the right thing to do is actually to push ahead and make sure that we come out of the EU properly on 31 December [2020]. We should not be using COVID as an excuse to delay Brexit for another year and have another year of transition as you are saying we should do. Do you not see the...

  • Dr Heiko Schöning

    • Reference: 2020/3775
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 15 October 2020
    German Doctor Dr Heiko Schöning was arrested by the Met Police Territorial Support Group at Speakers' Corner at Hyde Park on the afternoon of 26 September 2020 whilst addressing a crowd. Could you explain why he was arrested and what he has been charged with?

  • Police Officers Obscuring Their Identity

    • Reference: 2020/3776
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 15 October 2020
    Why did the Territorial Support Group police officers who conducted the arrest of Dr Heiko Schöning at Speakers' Corner at Hyde Park on the afternoon of 26 September 2020 cover their name tags and numbers - clipping their phones over them, or cover them with their tabards. Given its own unhappy history with this particular issue, the Metropolitan Police will be particularly aware why uniformed police officers on public order duties must be capable of being identified at all times. The alleged re-appearance of this practice is highly disappointing. Who authorised it and why?