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• Reference: 2021/1197
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

Is there anything about Operation Midland (the Metropolitan Police investigation into Carl Beech’s bogus claims about a VIP paedophile ring) that you think could have been handled differently?

• Reference: 2021/1198
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

What have been the Metropolitan Police’s clear up rates for murder, burglary, rape and Grievous Bodily Harm over the last five years?

• Reference: 2021/1199
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

I note that on 24 February 2021 Mr Toyin Agbetu - one of your Commissioners for Diversity in the Public Realm resigned, after his blog posts commenting on Jewish people were brought to City Hall’s attention by Jewish News . One of his posts claimed there was an ‘immoral hierarchy of suffering’ which had seen victims of the Holocaust ‘served well by Nazi hunters’ compared to African victims of the slave trade. Agbetu has also claimed that Jews played a leading role in the Atlantic slave trade. In 2007, he also heckled the Queen, during a service at Westminster Abbey...

• Reference: 2021/1200
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

Given that your recruitment due diligence failed to uncover the alleged anti-Semitism of one Commission appointee, what else might it have failed to pick up? How can Londoners have confidence in the people you have selected?

• Reference: 2021/1201
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

On 26 February 2021, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services published its report into the police use of stop and search powers. It raised the prospect of abandoning stop and search for drugs altogether, stating that damage may outweigh the benefits. ‘While suspicions about drugs are stated as the reason in the majority of the half a million stop and searches in England and Wales annually, illicit substances were found on only one in four occasions.’ Does the Metropolitan Police regard one in four as an effective detection rate?

• Reference: 2021/1155
• Question by: Alison Moore
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

What discussions, if any, have you had with the Government and/or the London based Train Operating Companies regarding routes in London being part of the trial ?

• Reference: 2021/1156
• Question by: Alison Moore
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

At what point would the Transport & Works Act from Crossrail 2 need to be agreed for it to open at the same time as Phase 2a of High Speed 2 in 2035-2040?

• Reference: 2021/1157
• Question by: Alison Moore
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

What assessment have you and TfL made of the impact of the Prime Minister’s roadmap to ease COVID-19 restrictions on TfL ridership forecasts?

• Reference: 2021/1158
• Question by: Alison Moore
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

What steps are you taking to secure TfL funding beyond March 2021 and when will the new funding package be announced?

• Reference: 2021/1159
• Question by: Alison Moore
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

When will you enter the Trial Running phase of the Crossrail project?