• Reference: 2023/0835
• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

In your response to Motion 10 (Dial-a-Ride) agreed at the Assembly Plenary meeting in September 2022, you stated “Other recommendations outlined in the report, such as providing journeys over longer distances, extending operating hours and ensuring a minimum number of weekly journeys, are limited by funding and resource restrictions as outlined in our response to the report shared with Age UK London and Transport for All.” Can you please tell me what the costs are for those proposals not implemented from Age UK’s brilliant report?

• Reference: 2023/0834
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

Please provide the total number of affordable homes in developments approved by the Mayor between 2008 and 2016, broken down by year, along with the source of this data.

• Reference: 2023/0833
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

Please provide the total number of homes in developments approved by the Mayor between 2008 and 2016, broken down by year, along with the source of this data.

• Reference: 2023/0832
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

Please provide the total number of affordable homes in developments approved by the Mayor since 2016, broken down by year, along with the source of this data.

• Reference: 2023/0831
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

Please provide the total number of homes in developments approved by the Mayor since 2016, broken down by year, along with the source of this data.

• Reference: 2023/0830
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

Lloyds Banking Group and Halifax are to shut 40 high street branches in London. This is in addition to the 24 announced closures by Barclays and TSB in the capital. What as Mayor are you doing to encourage more high street banking provision for those that cannot use online banking?

• Reference: 2023/0829
• Question by: Sakina Sheikh
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

What is your assessment of the changes to the NPPF proposed by the Government and what impact would they have on London policies?

• Reference: 2023/0828
• Question by: Sakina Sheikh
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

Is it possible for you to explore whether Public Practice could be used to fund planning officers who focus on the climate emergency?

• Reference: 2023/0827
• Question by: Sakina Sheikh
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

What benefits will the expansion of Public Practice to councils in the rest of England have on the capital?

• Reference: 2023/0826
• Question by: Sakina Sheikh
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

Councils have already seen a drastic reduction in their planning departments. What impact has your Public Practice initiative had on London Councils’ ability to counter these cuts and deliver their local planning agenda?