• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

Do you have any plans as to how you are going to do that?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

Thank you. Can you let me know the sort of scheme that you will be promoting with your new housing powers to convert temporary accommodation into permanent social housing?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

Is that it? OK. Could you tell me what standards are in place to ensure at least the minimum standards of decency for all current temporary accommodation that is being used, including the private sector, and how can you ensure that these are effectively enforced? We hear horror stories about some forms of temporary accommodation.

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

Can I assume this will be a high priority for you under the new powers?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

You are working with the local authorities. Do we need a new approach to this? Something that happened in my Ward before I was elected was that they renewed a whole street. This is one way forward. You get streets, or even more small areas to work together and make it happen.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

You mentioned that the energy companies will not be making money out of insulation and that is quite true. They still have statutory responsibilities on energy efficiency measures. They seem to be doing it better in other parts of the country than London. That certainly is something you could talk to them about and make sure they improve their performance here in London.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

You said, `Given the limited resources'. Why are the resources so limited when this is an issue that is going to come up more and more in the future?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

I think what you will find is they will come back and say to you the housing stock is more difficult to deal with in London because it is blocks of flats. I think it is probably best to do it universally in the blocks.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

That is probably perfectly true. What about the Climate Change Agency though? Could they not perhaps also take this up in some way?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

Thank you. I do hope this fuel poverty issue is going to be quite high up your budget in the next round. Apparently, according to official figures, that number of households has doubled since 2003, and the situation is getting much, much worse. I am glad you are coming out with your London-wide fuel poverty programme. What about the London Climate Change Agency? There is a lot that they could be doing. Are they going to move this issue up their area of concern?