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• Reference: 2016/1101
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 March 2016

As the railway between Barking, Woodgrange Park and Forest Gate Junction is already electrified and will remain open while the rest of the route is closed for electrification, will London Overground continue to operate trains between Barking (platforms 1, 7 or 8) and Woodgrange Park where turn back facilities are already provided?

• Reference: 2016/1102
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 March 2016

Could the Mayor please explain why it not viable to lease electric trains to fill the gap between the completion of the electrification and platform extension projects in mid 2017 and the arrival in passenger service of the new Class710 electric trains in April 2018? Class315 electric trains on TfL Rail duties will be replaced by new Crossrail Class345 trains from early 2017 and the Class315 trains are not currently designated for any further use. Could not the lease of ten of these Class315 trains be extended for 10-12 months to enable them to be transferred to the electrified Barkng...

• Reference: 2016/1036
• Question by: Kemi Badenoch
• Meeting date: 16 March 2016

Research has suggested that law enforcement agencies and policy-makers should pay more attention to the threat from lone-wolf individuals inspired by far-right extremism. What steps have you, MOPAC and the Metropolitan Police Service taken to tackle far-right extremism?

• Question by: Kemi Badenoch
• Meeting date: 16 March 2016

Kemi Badenoch AM: Thank you, Chair. Mr Mayor, would you agree with me that Assembly Member Knight was selectively quoting figures to make a successful mayoralty look like it has not been? I am reminding you that unemployment dropped 7% in your mayoralty and is at one of the lowest points it has been in the last two decades. I completely echo your point about the number of people who have come to this country to look for work. On the one hand they want lots of people to come to the country, but they do not accept that when...

• Question by: Kemi Badenoch
• Meeting date: 16 March 2016

Kemi Badenoch AM: Thank you, Chair. Mr Mayor, is it not right that the Home Office has said that sanction detection is not the best way to measure police performance and that the numbers we get should be interpreted with care? Rates have fallen because of more accurate recording of crime and a crime could be considered solved even when a detection is not made. Is this not just scaremongering by the opposition Members?

• Reference: 2016/0655
• Question by: Kemi Badenoch
• Meeting date: 22 February 2016

A review of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) found that an "information void" was letting victims down, and template letters sent to the victims of crime "lacked empathy". It was also suggested that victims often felt "alienated" which resulted in them refusing to appear in court as witnesses. What work have you, MOPAC and the Metropolitan Police Service done to assist the CPS in providing support for the victims of crime across London?

• Reference: 2016/0656
• Question by: Kemi Badenoch
• Meeting date: 22 February 2016

In what timeframe is it expected that the Metropolitan Police Service will recruit and train the extra 600 armed officers it has announced?

• Reference: 2016/0657
• Question by: Kemi Badenoch
• Meeting date: 22 February 2016

In the last three years how many police officers have been recruited by the Metropolitan Police Service from other police forces, and which police forces were they recruited from?

• Reference: 2016/0658
• Question by: Kemi Badenoch
• Meeting date: 22 February 2016

It has been suggested that a number of firearms officers recruited by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) have come from police forces in the Home Counties. What is being done to ensure that while increasing the armed presence in London, the MPS doesn't inadvertently make other areas of the country less safe?

• Reference: 2016/0659
• Question by: Kemi Badenoch
• Meeting date: 22 February 2016

In the last three years, how many times have armed police officers from the Metropolitan Police Service been provided to police forces outside of London under Mutual Aid?