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• Reference: 2015/4368
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 16 December 2015

A report by the National Audit Office claims that a counter-terrorism database designed to prevent criminals and extremists from sneaking into Britain breaks down twice a week. What conversations have the Metropolitan Police Service had with the Home Office to ensure that vital information on potentially dangerous people entering Britain is retained in the event of the database crashing?

• Reference: 2015/4369
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 16 December 2015

A recent report by the College of Policing and MOPAC revealed that footage obtained through body worn cameras have "no overall impact" on the number of stop and searches conducted. Given the challenges faced by the Metropolitan Police Service in improving its relationship with certain groups in London, what further measures are needed to ensure that the introduction of body worn cameras results in an increase in public confidence in the police?

• Reference: 2015/4370
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 16 December 2015

A recent report by the College of Policing and MOPAC found that some officers felt frustrated with the lack of accessible practical and technical support regarding how to use the body worn camera. What measures are the Metropolitan Police Service putting in place to ensure that officers have the support necessary to use the body worn video camera as effectively as possible?

• Reference: 2015/4014
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 December 2015

In relation to your answer to MQ 2015/3777, how will you ensure the remedial repairs required to the MPS vehicles do not affect their ability to be deployed for operational purposes?

• Reference: 2015/4015
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 December 2015

What additional transport infrastructure will be required to support the on-going regeneration of areas including Wood Wharf and the Royal Docks?

• Reference: 2015/4016
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 December 2015

A constituent has asked me to ask you the following question: Yesterday I saw two PCSOs stop a man cycling on the pavement in Commercial Road. They spoke to him and he walked off from them, pushing his bike along and then when he got out of their grasping range, got back on the bike and cycled off, shouting abuse at them and giving them a two finger salute. What action is the Mayor taking to deter cycling on pavements which is dangerous to pedestrians, particularly those with visual disabilities?

• Reference: 2015/4017
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 December 2015

How many fixed penalty notices have been issued for this offence? Please list them by borough for each year 2013/14, 2014/15 and 2015/16 to date.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 16 December 2015

Roger Evans AM: Boris, if you look around the city there is a lot of wonderful, iconic construction work going on around the place. New buildings are going up everywhere. I am surprised, travelling around the centre of town, how many of those developers seems to have found it necessary to extend beyond the curtilage of the development and appropriate parts of the road and indeed parts of the pavement, if we go on to Val’s [Shawcross CBE AM] later question about walking. All of these add to congestion as well.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 16 December 2015

Roger Evans AM: One of the benefits that we enjoy as a city in the United Kingdom (UK) is that very lethal weapons are less available to potential terrorists than they are in a lot of other countries around the world, but that does not stop people trying to commit acts with smaller weapons. Sometimes the police officers who get to those types of incidents are not armed with live rounds. Is it worth considering rolling out more Tasers to police officers on the beat so that they are able to neutralise that type of threat from a distance?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 02 December 2015

Mayor John Biggs AM: Thank you very much for your earlier answers. I obviously have a parochial interest as the Assembly Member for East London. Particularly Newham but also Tower Hamlets have been adversely affected by the closure of fire stations and the loss of appliances. In your current proposals, potentially we lose another three appliances in Poplar, Plaistow and Stratford and a fourth nearby in Shoreditch. Can you tell us what the cumulative impact would be on residents in my constituency in East London and whether there would be more areas that will fall outside the six-minute response time...