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Questions to the Mayor 24 June, 2021 ALL QUESTIONS LIST Report No: 5 Subject: Questions to the Mayor Report of: Executive Director of Secretariat TfL’s Extraordinary Funding and Financing Agreement Question No: 2021/2475 Elly Baker Is the 1 June 2021 Extraordinary Funding and Financing Agreement between Transport for London and the Department for Transport a good deal for London? Silvertown Road Tunnel scrutiny Question No: 2021/2299 Zack Polanski Do you feel that the Silvertown Road Tunnel has had enough public and democratic scrutiny? ULEZ Question No: 2021/2411 Peter Fortune What plans do you have to reopen TfL’s suspended ULEZ scrappage schemes? Met Recruitment and Conduct Question No: 2021/2211 Caroline Pidgeon Do you have confidence in the Metropolitan Police Service’s recruitment processes for police officers? Deputy Mayor’s Views Question No: 2021/2339 Keith Prince In October 2020 your Deputy Mayor for Transport stated that she could not “see how it’s right to charge people £15 to drive a mile from Wandsworth to Clapham, or Catford to Lewisham from October next year.” Do you agree with your Deputy Mayor? London’s retail and hospitality sector Question No: 2021/2538 Krupesh Hirani How are you supporting London’s retail and hospitality sectors this summer? EU Londoners Question No: 2021/2451 Marina Ahmad Has the Government listened to your concerns regarding the backlog in applications for the EU Settlement Scheme and the evidence indicating that the most vulnerable in society are in the greatest danger of slipping through the cracks meaning that tens of thousands of EU citizens could become undocumented and vulnerable to discrimination? TfL - Financial Sustainability Plan Question No: 2021/2389 Nicholas Rogers When will you publish a new plan, outlining a path for TfL to reach financial sustainability? Manifesto Delivery Question No: 2021/2431 Susan Hall How confident are you about delivering on your manifesto over the next three years? London Plan and Community Engagement Question No: 2021/2592 Sakina Sheikh How does your London Plan ensure Londoners have a say in regeneration plans for the capital, and ensure they have a role in shaping their neighbourhood? Development in London Question No: 2021/2325 Emma Best How will the Mayor look to improve large development and regeneration projects this term? The G7 and decarbonising London Question No: 2021/2609 Leonie Cooper London’s target to achieve net zero by 2030 represents a large contribution towards UK target for net zero by 2050 and cutting emissions by 78% by 2035. Following the June 2021 G7 summit and the Government’s recent commitment to end all new finance for coal power by the end of 2021, how can London show leadership in: 1) providing innovative solutions for decarbonising of power; 2) in improving its offer to community energy projects and 3) improving its offer to local energy networks? Gov.UK, ‘UK enshrines new target in law to slash emissions by 78% by 2035, ‘ 20 April 2021 Counter terror preparedness Question No: 2021/2528 Unmesh Desai You have stated that you are to commission an update of the Harris review into London’s counter terror preparedness. Have all the recommendations of the original review been implemented by the relevant agencies, and have there been any failures that have led you to seek to commission this update? Disability Employment Gap Question No: 2021/2435 Tony Devenish 81.2% of non-disabled people are in work compared to just 52.6% of disabled people. What have you done to change this worrying statistic over the last 5 years and what are your targets for reducing this over the next 3 years? Purley Way Master Plan Question No: 2021/2369 Neil Garratt What are you doing from a transport perspective to support the Purley Way Master Plan? London’s Green Belt Question No: 2021/2303 Andrew Boff Will you protect London’s Green Belt? Prioritising Early Years Programmes Question No: 2021/2321 Emma Best Are Early Years Programmes a priority for your mayoralty? Delays to Court Cases Question No: 2021/2550 Joanne McCartney There is a large backlog of court cases in London. What effect is this delay to justice having on criminal cases in London? Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Health Inequalities Question No: 2021/2586 Onkar Sahota How are you working to address the health inequalities of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities in London? Stop and search based on the smell of cannabis Question No: 2021/2300 Caroline Russell The IOPC recommended against stop and searches based on the smell of cannabis alone, can you confirm that since the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) accepted this recommendation and that no Londoners have been stopped and searched solely for this reason? New community plans for London small sites Question No: 2021/2301 Siân Berry How are you going to involve Londoners from the ground up in making a new strategy for small sites in London? London Disability Employment Taskforce Question No: 2021/2222 Hina Bokhari In 2018 the Social Market Foundation and the Trust for London recommended that you should constitute and lead a London Disability Employment Taskforce. What progress has been made on this since then? End of the Eviction Ban Question No: 2021/2551 Sem Moema With the Government ending the ban on evictions, how do we stop Londoners being forced out of their homes? You have said, “my team continues to talk to government officials about how best to respond to this situation [the end of the eviction ban]. This should include a financial support package for those who have built up arrears during the pandemic, improved access to welfare benefits and a two-year rent freeze in London. The Government must also now act on its promise to ban Section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions, to provide far greater security for renters.” Can you provide an update on the talks with the Government and whether they will be taking the steps you have suggested? Gender-neutral toilets Question No: 2021/2302 Caroline Russell Do you agree that it is an important public health and equalities issue that gender-neutral toilets in London are preserved and improved, alongside the provision of any new facilities? Waking Watches Question No: 2021/2497 Anne Clarke What representations have you made to Government for them to pay upfront the costs of remediation for those living with flammable cladding, and in the meantime, what could they do to support those leaseholders paying extortionate Waking Watches costs? (AT END OF PRIORITY LIST) QUESTIONS FOR WRITTEN ANSWER Questions not asked during Mayor’s Question time will be given a written response by 29 June, 2021. Violence Prevention Programmes Data Sharing with MOPAC Question No: 2021/2212 Caroline Pidgeon Are all the various violence prevention programmes funded and supported by MOPAC and/or the Met in custody suites, A&Es and communities across London providing data and information on details such as the location of crimes and weapons used by the GLA Safe Stats team? Supporting Tech Start-ups with Safeguarding Question No: 2021/2213 Caroline Pidgeon London has a proud reputation for our tech start-ups. However, with increasing reports of online child sexual abuse how are you, through MOPAC and as Chair of the LEAP, working with the tech sector and particularly London’s tech start-ups to promote the importance of safeguarding measures for children and protections against the sharing of child sexual abuse content? VAWG and Online Safety (1) Question No: 2021/2214 Caroline Pidgeon The Internet Watch Foundation’s 2020 Annual Report showed a 77% increase in reports of self-generated sexualised material online with analysis showing that in 80% of these cases the victims were 11-13 year-old girls. Of course, this data is not specific to London but it does show a concerning pattern of girls being groomed online. Given the increasingly gendered nature of this issue, what more are you doing through your VAWG programmes to protect and safeguard young girls online? VAWG and Online Safety (2) Question No: 2021/2215 Caroline Pidgeon What work is MOPAC undertaking to review its commissioned support services to ensure they are equipped to meet the needs of victims of online offences, particularly children, given the increasing prevalence and concern over online child sexual abuse offences since the beginning of the COVID pandemic? Independent Custody Visitors (ICVs) Question No: 2021/2216 Caroline Pidgeon Will MOPAC be formally consulting ICVs on whether or not they wish to maintain the option of virtual visits once COVID-19 restrictions are eased, or whether they wish to move back to exclusively conducted in-person visits? Engage Programme in Custody Suites Question No: 2021/2217 Caroline Pidgeon Given the value youth workers can have in custody suites to use the teachable moment of arrest to reduce reoffending, do you have plans to expand the Engage Programme currently being operated in two custody suites in London? Rise in Anti-Semitic Incidents Question No: 2021/2218 Caroline Pidgeon In recent weeks we have seen numerous concerning reports of deeply disturbing anti- Semitic incidents in the capital. How will you be increasing your efforts to tackle hate-crime in the capital and ensure communities, such as London’s Jewish community, feel safe? Collecting Data on Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Victims of Hate Crime Question No: 2021/2219 Caroline Pidgeon Will you look to ensure MOPAC collects data on Gypsy, Roma and Traveller hate crimes that take place in London and also ensure that this information is included on the MOPAC Hate crime dashboard? The London Stadium Revenue and Savings (1) Question No: 2021/2220 Caroline Pidgeon I understand some new event space has been created at the London Stadium.