• Question by: Elly Baker
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

Elly Baker AM: Thanks, Chair. Thanks for your update on the Transport Bill, Mr Mayor. I share your concern about the flimsy nature of the Bill. We also welcome the forthcoming Bill on pedicabs. I am sure Assembly Member Clarke will be extremely excited that we are going to have some powers to regulate at some point. I understand that the first Mayor’s Question about regulating pedicabs was asked by [Baroness] Jenny Jones [former Assembly Member] in 2001; that is 22 years that it took to get a Bill. Do you think we are going to have to wait two...

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

Tony Devenish AM: Thank you, Chair. I do not think I can ask the Mayor any more on this. I totally understand his answer. But, through you, can I ask you to take it offline with [London Assembly] Group Leads and see if we can write to the MPS Commissioner on this? Either the MPS needs to get better lawyers, or we need a change in law. I am not sure which it is, but we need to make sure that we unanimously around this table do take this up, because we cannot have this kind of outrage. Thank you.

• Reference: 2023/4448
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): The Mayor will now provide an oral update of five minutes in length on matters occurring since the publication of his report. Mr Mayor.

• Reference: 2023/4447
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 07 December 2023

In the letter from Tajmina Jetha, Head of Programme Management, Housing and Land, to the Chair of the London Assembly Budget and Performance Committee, dated 25 October 2023, it said: “the GLA is estimating that £173.5m of the funding approved for projects in the Affordable Housing Programme 2021-26 will be applied to homes replacing obsolete units.” What percentage of the total funding in the Affordable Homes Programme 2021-26 is this £173.5 million?

• Reference: 2023/4446
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 07 December 2023

In the letter from Tajmina Jetha, Head of Programme Management, Housing and Land, to the Chair of the London Assembly Budget and Performance Committee, dated 25 October 2023, it said: “A total of 1,105 completed homes were via Right to Buy Back projects, 108 completions in 2021-22 and 938 completed homes in 2022-23 and 59 in Q1 of 2023-24.” Were all these funded from the Affordable Homes Programme 2016-23 and, if so, what was the total funding from this programme? If not, how many were funded from the Affordable Homes Programme 2021-26 and what was the total funding from this...

• Reference: 2023/4445
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 07 December 2023

When will the Mayor be publishing the update to the Affordable Housing and Viability London Plan guidance that covers giving key workers access to intermediate affordable housing, which he anticipated would be published for consultation in Spring 2023?

• Reference: 2023/4444
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 07 December 2023

What analysis of the costs and wider benefits ratio will you or the Mayor be carrying out to assess his new Council Homes Acquisition Programme (CHAP)?

• Reference: 2023/4443
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 07 December 2023

What additional funding is the Mayor seeking from Government to support the new ten-year Council Homes Acquisition Programme (CHAP), as announced in his press release on 17 November 2023? Please provide copies of any correspondence and supporting documents that you or the Mayor have exchanged with Government departments on this issue to date.

• Reference: 2023/4442
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 07 December 2023

Could you provide an estimate of the number of additional council homes to be purchased in each year of the Mayor's new ten-year Council Homes Acquisition Programme (CHAP), as announced in his press release on 17 November 2023?

• Reference: 2023/4441
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 07 December 2023

How much of the funding from the current Affordable Homes Programme 2021-26 (AHP21-26) is being allocated towards the Mayor’s new Council Homes Acquisition Programme (CHAP) and the goal of purchasing at least 10,000 extra council homes over the next ten years, as announced in his press release on 17 November 2023?