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• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Emma Best AM: Thank you, Chair. I just wanted to pick up on that point earlier about the language used, and that applies to parliamentary parties as well. The opposition particularly has to be really careful not to dehumanise the Government and politicians of the party in charge on the day. I and many of my colleagues receive death threats. We walk out of this building and do not have security surrounding us. That comes when opposition politicians call us ‘scum,’ and when they incite and praise violence. I stand with the Mayor. I see your Twitter and that is...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Joanne McCartney AM: Yes, thank you. My first question is for Sir Mark. Is the MPS good at supporting victims through the criminal justice service?

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Susan Hall AM: T hank you. Mr Mayor, I do not know what is happening. We have been agreeing an awful lot today, which is somewhat unusual; however, I want to bring your attention to something. All of us agree that our police officers are invaluable, as are firefighters, ambulance drivers and so on. Many of them, because of the cost of housing in London, have to come in from outside. Consequently, quite naturally, the Metropolitan Police Federation is incensed that you are going to expand the Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) because it would mean that so many officers, who...

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Tony Devenish AM: Thank you, Chair. I am going to follow the Chair’s request earlier, Sir Mark, in terms of South Hampstead and also ask if you could look at blatant drug dealing in Earl’s Court. My wider question is: do you think, once you have been in office for a good year, we could get rid of blatant drug dealing? It has become far more blatant right across London in recent years. It really does - I use an old-fashioned expression - lower the tone of an area. It is all about trying to reassure Londoners that we are...

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Emma Best AM: Thank you. Mr Mayor, to come back to the point I was making earlier - and I should have made this clearer at the time - I was speaking recently to someone and I had that conversation about professionals. I said: “Sometimes it is just easier to not say what you do.” They were a police officer and they said: “Yes, same for me.” It made me realise that it is that language problem, and police officers face that too, especially this new phrase coming in from America: ‘ACAB’. I hope I do not need to say...

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Siân Berry AM: Mr Mayor, in relation to police live access to ANPR cameras for the wider ULEZ, you seem to have just said, “They do have access,” followed up by, “They will have access.” At the present time, is it ‘will’ or ‘do?’

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Unmesh Desai AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor. Good morning, Commissioner. Mr Mayor, I noted your answer to the Chair’s lead-off question, but can I ask you if you can be more specific and use some examples of how your new Police and Crime Plan will address the challenges we face in London today? Looking back, what do you feel are the key achievements of the 2016 to 2021 Police and Crime Plan?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 09 December 2009

Mr Mayor, you have just been asked about the relationship between yourself and ATOC on matters of the Freedom Pass and the costs. This morning London Councils has flagged up - and you may have seen it in its newsletter - its worries about ATOC asking for extra money to pay for the Freedom Pass. Now, Caroline [Pidgeon] was asking about 24 hours as I understood it but, apparently, ATOC is asking for more money for the Freedom Pass in any case when it is used on the mainline services. Are you talking to London Councils about their worries on...

• Reference: 2007/0011-1
• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

Please can you state, briefly and in concrete terms, what you personally define as the most important legacy of the Games for London?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 December 2006

Given that both the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrat Party only want to build half a Thames Gateway bridge I think it is quite reasonable there should be a lively discussion on the issue! I think in both cases they like the northern part, but not the southern part. That is politics for you! Would you agree that you are the greenest Local Authority Leader in the country and that green voters should celebrate the fact that they have voted for you in the past and should think hard before supporting another candidate in the future?