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• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 03 June 2015

I just wanted to explore a bit more the interaction with gangs because you are right, Mr Mayor, that the anti-gang command or the new Trident Command, as it was, was launched at the end of 2011. Obviously, there would have been a bump in activity, arrests and convictions during the early part of 2012. Many of those gang nominals will have had, in my view, relatively paltry sentences and will be now re-emerging from the secure estate. What connection is there between them reaching the end of their sentences and re-emerging and this rise in activity, which may well...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 03 June 2015

Mr Mayor, you and I have sat in this horseshoe now for just over seven years. Boris Johnson MP (Mayor of London): It has been historic. Kit Malthouse AM MP: During that time, the conversation and the questions from the other parties have never changed. Boris Johnson MP (Mayor of London): It has deteriorated. Kit Malthouse AM MP: It has always been, “You are cutting. It is a disaster. Things are going to get worse”, yet crime and the budget have inexorably fallen, together, in parallel. Do you think your victory in 2012 and the Government’s victory not a few...

• Reference: 2015/1482
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 21 May 2015

Recent anti-democratic protests in central London resulted in four police officers and a member of police staff being injured, and a war memorial being vandalized. Research has shown that the use of body-worn video cameras often calms difficult situations and provides valuable evidence. Would you therefore support calls for all Metropolitan police officers engaged in public order policing to be issued with body-worn video cameras?

• Reference: 2015/1467
• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 21 May 2015

Please report the current performance statistics for the compulsory sobriety pilot in Croydon. What plans do you have to expand the use of compulsory sobriety across London?

• Reference: 2015/1468
• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 21 May 2015

How much is TfL spending on the recent self-congratulatory youtube campaign designed to convince people that there is active and responsive management of the road network in London under the guise of a road modernisation plan?

• Reference: 2015/1469
• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 21 May 2015

Do you feel that the current level of disruption to road traffic caused by the unprecedented number of road works in central London is acceptable?

• Reference: 2015/1470
• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 21 May 2015

What work has been undertaken by TfL to consider the installation of spiral escalators in stations that currently have spiral staircases and lifts such as Covent Garden?

• Reference: 2015/1471
• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 21 May 2015

What work is being undertaken to extend the proposed north/south cycle superhighway north from Kings Cross to Kentish Town?

• Reference: 2015/1477
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 21 May 2015

Following an outage on the Emergency Service Network for 40 minutes in April, what steps have been taken by the Metropolitan Police Service to ensure that the network remains operational at all times?

• Reference: 2015/1478
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 21 May 2015

Police forces around the world, such as in Australia, regularly make use of computerised tomography (CT) scanners as part of forensic pathology investigations. Has the Metropolitan Police Service used CT scanners as part of any investigations, and what provisions are in place for them to use such a service should they require it?