• Reference: 2025/1759
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Do you endorse the general calls made in the housing charity Shelter report, Safe as Houses: Why Investment in Social Housing is Great for Us and Our Economy, for a new, 10-year Affordable Homes Programme worth £30 - 38.2bn in the first five years (with an appropriate amount allocated to London)?

• Reference: 2025/1758
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Last month, the Queens Market Traders Union wrote to Newham Council requesting a freeze on the proposed increases to their pitch fees. In this letter, signed by almost 50 traders, they described how the well-documented issues with works funded under the Good Growth Fund and carried out by Newham council have been detrimental to their businesses over the past sixteen months, citing a 15 - 40 per cent drop in takings for their traders. Given their concerns derive from the poor management of the Good Growth Fund, will you contact the council and endorse their request for a rent freeze...

• Reference: 2025/1757
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Do you intend to renew funding for the Good Growth Fund, your flagship regeneration programme, when the current programme ends this year?

• Reference: 2025/1756
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Your Council Homes Acquisition Programme (CHAP) under the Affordable Homes Programme 2021-26 enables councils to purchase and convert properties for social rent. How many London boroughs have successfully bid for CHAP funding?

• Reference: 2025/1755
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

There is a chronic shortage of housing in London that is both affordable and accessible. When you allocate grant funding to projects under the current Affordable Homes Programme, is there flexibility to ensure the additional costs of building accessible homes can be covered?

• Reference: 2025/1754
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

How much funding have you awarded to estate regeneration projects under the AHP 2016-2023 and AHP 2021-2026? Please provide the answer in a table format.

• Reference: 2025/1753
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Your city-wide role in rough sleeping has a huge role in supporting marginalised groups, where numbers of rough sleepers might be quite small at a borough level but amount to a large population London-wide. How will your Rough Sleeping Action Plan acknowledge the distinct experiences of LGBTIQA+ rough sleepers?

• Reference: 2025/1752
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

On 14 December 2024 the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) used Section 14 of the Public Order Act 1986 to disperse a group of carol singers who had gathered outside of the Houses of Parliament. Complaints were made by members of the public to the MPS about this incident. How is MOPAC working with the MPS to help them learn from this incident as part of their learning culture?

• Reference: 2025/1751
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

In the Project ADDER: Impact evaluation published by the Home Office on 12 February 2025 it states that: “There was no observable effect of Project ADDER on a reduction in the prevalence of drug use.” Following this evaluation what discussions are you and MOPAC having with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) about the effectiveness of their current approach to policing drugs in London?

• Reference: 2025/1750
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

In the Project ADDER: Impact evaluation published by the Home Office on 12 February 2025 it states that: “In the longer term, Project ADDER aims to achieve an overall reduction in drug-related offending. The wider literature, including research from North America, suggests that we are unlikely to observe reductions in the number of people using drugs and in levels of drug-related crime over the duration of a 2 to 3 year programme. Evidence from similar diversionary programmes has shown mixed success in terms of crime reduction. However, the evidence for the impact of treatment programmes on reducing crime is somewhat...