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

Susan Hall AM: Thank you. May I say first of all, Sir Mark, thank you for your robust answers to Assembly Member Russell. There is no doubt that politicians do mean well, but it is absolutely vital that we look at things in the round. I really applaud your robust answers. To be fair, Sir Steve House had started to row back, and I am pleased to see that you are saying what you are because figures on both sides of an argument need to be looked at. Thank you for that; I was thrilled to hear that. Mr Mayor...

• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Krupesh Hirani AM: Thank you, Chair, and my question is to Sir Mark first of all. You told the October 2022 Police and Crime Committee that: “What the public should see is us stabilising our neighbourhood policing, so people are less abstracted ...” Between quarter 1 (Q1) of 2020/21 and quarter 1 of 2022/23, the abstraction level for Dedicated Ward Officers fluctuated between 3.6% and 9.9%. I recently met with the ward panel representative of Queensbury Ward in my constituency in the London Borough of Brent, and it was a real issue that they were raising with their local Safer...

• 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...