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• Reference: 2020/4321
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

Are you satisfied that the Metropolitan Police are currently upholding the Peelite principles of policing?

• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

David Kurten AM: Yes. Thank you, Chair. Good morning, Mr Mayor. I want to ask you about something you mentioned in your answer there to Assembly Member Whittle, who asked about the incident at Speakers’ Corner on Sunday. It seems that Speakers’ Corner is closed at the moment. I was there on Sunday to observe what was going on and I was quite shocked to see a person who is a YouTuber giving a speech. He was surrounded by police, pulled off his chair and bundled into the back of a police van. I was also shoved by a police...

• Reference: 2020/4037
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

Do you regret your recent statements concerning the US presidential election?

• Reference: 2020/3860
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

Research published in October by the LSE gives evidence that disadvantaged students have fallen behind their more privileged peers. The biggest fear is that pupils will suffer permanent ‘educational scarring’ with a clear distinction between the highest and lowest income backgrounds. What work are you doing to help ensure children from lower income households are not left behind?

• Reference: 2020/4039
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

How will TfL ensure the final phase of Crossrail is on time and on budget?

• Reference: 2020/4041
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

I am concerned about the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown (and related rules) on the safety of mental health care. NHS services are not running at full capacity and face-to-face contact with patients has reduced. How many incidents of homicide and other violent crime involving psychiatric patients have been recorded since the lockdown began in March 2020 by the Metropolitan Police?

• Reference: 2020/4042
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

What is the Metropolitan Police doing to reduce the risk of homicide by mentally ill persons during a time of restricted mental health service operation?

• Reference: 2020/4043
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

How many homicides that occurred in the Metropolitan Police District were attributable to mental illness in the period 2019-20?

• Reference: 2020/4044
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

What information (if any) is recorded on cannabis or other illicit drug use by homicide suspects?

• Reference: 2020/4045
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

In cases that were heard in court, in the Metropolitan Police District in the period 2019-20, how many of those charged were deemed to have diminished responsibility?