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• Reference: 2022/5276
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 15 December 2022

How are you working with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) to ensure that the rights of journalists to report on events such as protests are maintained?

• Reference: 2022/5281
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 15 December 2022

Your Warmer Homes programme has been running since 2018 when it was launched with £20 million of Mayoral and Government funding. In December 2021 it was extended with a further £11.1 million and then in May 2022 you announced another £43 million of funding. For the initial £20 million funding could you provide an update on: a) the number of households that qualified for grants, b) the amount of each grant, and c) how many households used the funds on ventilation systems?

• Reference: 2022/5282
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 15 December 2022

The Warmer Homes Advice Service provides advice to Londoners on “saving energy and tackling dampness and mould”. Could you tell me: a) how many people have used this service since its launch, b) how are you quantifying if the advice received has led to warmer and better ventilated homes, and c) could you share this data with me?

• Reference: 2022/5283
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 15 December 2022

One of the findings of the February 2019 report, Keeping out the chill: fixing London’s cold, damp and mouldy homes, from the London Assembly Environment Committee, was that “living patterns in over-occupied households can contribute to additional moisture in the air” showing the need to prioritise overcrowded households. Since the introduction of the Warmer Homes programme in 2018, how many overcrowded households and in which boroughs have been supported with ventilation measures to reduce the negative health impacts of condensation, damp and mould?

• Reference: 2022/5284
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 15 December 2022

When you wrote to me in April 2019 regarding the February 2019 report, Keeping out the chill: fixing London’s cold, damp and mouldy homes, from the London Assembly Environment Committee, you said you will be “working with social landlords to broaden the provision of advice” available to tenants on energy efficiency measures, energy bills and ventilation. Could you provide a progress update on this work, in particular any actions you have taken with social landlords to target ventilation improvements for overcrowded households?

• Reference: 2022/5285
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 15 December 2022

The minutes of the 12 May 2022 meeting of the London Fuel Poverty Partnership show it decided to establish four working groups: Health led by NHS England London, Private Rented Sector led by Greater London Authority (GLA), Cost of Living crisis led by National Energy Action (NEA) and Decarbonisation of Heat led by the Association for Decentralised Energy. Will these working groups address ways to reduce the likelihood of condensation and mould in people’s homes to improve Londoners’ health?

• Reference: 2022/5286
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 15 December 2022

The October 2022 report, A sociotechnical audit: assessing police use of facial recognition, from Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, said that the facial recognition deployments by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) failed to meet the minimum ethical and legal standards for the governance of this technology. Following the findings of this report will you urge the MPS to end its use of facial recognition technology?

• Reference: 2022/5287
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 15 December 2022

Could you confirm if the pilot referenced in question 2022/0036 has now begun, and if so, when?

• Reference: 2022/5288
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 15 December 2022

Thank you for your answer to my question 2022/0036. Since the date of your response could you tell me: a) how many Offensive Weapons Homicide Reviews (OWHRs) have started in London, b) how many Offensive Weapons Homicide Reviews been completed in London, and c) any initial learnings from these Offensive Weapons Homicide Reviews you can share with me?

• Reference: 2022/5289
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 15 December 2022

How confident are you that all Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officers in every Basic Command Unit (BCU) are clear that they should not rely on the smell of cannabis alone when deciding to stop and search someone?