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• Reference: 2020/4041
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

I am concerned about the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown (and related rules) on the safety of mental health care. NHS services are not running at full capacity and face-to-face contact with patients has reduced. How many incidents of homicide and other violent crime involving psychiatric patients have been recorded since the lockdown began in March 2020 by the Metropolitan Police?

• Reference: 2020/4042
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

What is the Metropolitan Police doing to reduce the risk of homicide by mentally ill persons during a time of restricted mental health service operation?

• Reference: 2020/4043
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

How many homicides that occurred in the Metropolitan Police District were attributable to mental illness in the period 2019-20?

• Reference: 2020/4044
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

What information (if any) is recorded on cannabis or other illicit drug use by homicide suspects?

• Reference: 2020/4045
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

In cases that were heard in court, in the Metropolitan Police District in the period 2019-20, how many of those charged were deemed to have diminished responsibility?

• Reference: 2020/4046
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

The killing of Sgt Ratana at Croydon Custody Suite in September caused public horror and revulsion. I understand that the suspect has been deemed mentally and physically unfit to stand trial, and that he is unlikely ever to be recorded as the murderer of Sgt Ratana. Furthermore, he has not been named as the suspect by the Metropolitan Police. I would be grateful if you would provide rationale for these decisions. Would you agree that this failure to name and prosecute detracts from public confidence in criminal justice?

• Reference: 2020/4049
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

On 28 October 2020, you tweeted: ‘It is simply wrong to hit 4 million more Londoners with a proposed congestion charge extension, which would have a serious effect on BAME-owned small and medium-sized businesses. I'll say it again — I will not agree to these draconian terms.’ What do you anticipate the impact of the proposed congestion charge extension will be on white-owned small and medium-sized businesses?

• Reference: 2020/4066
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

The makers of wind turbines, solar panels, electric vehicles and other supposedly environment-friendly technologies claim that these technologies are ‘green,’ ‘clean’ and ’just.’ Cobalt is an expensive metal used in electric car batteries, costing about $35,000 per ton. Some 59% of all cobalt comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Cobalt mining in DRC is often done by children, some as young as seven, with as many as 40,000 working in what are reported to be brutal and unsafe conditions 1 . Is it morally right that the GLA should be developing energy policy, without paying heed to the...

• 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…

• 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?