• Reference: 2020/3548
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 15 October 2020

What effect, if any, has the abolition of the HRA borrowing cap had on the amount of borrowing for housebuilding taken on by London’s Councils?

• Reference: 2020/3547
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 15 October 2020

Please update me on your work to explore incentives for businesses to provide investment in new homes which could benefit their workforce.

• Reference: 2020/3546
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 15 October 2020

Since becoming Mayor, how much investment has been secured and how many Build to Rent homes have been funded as a result?

• Reference: 2020/3545
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 15 October 2020

Since becoming Mayor, how have you used City Hall as a platform to attract institutional investors, pension and other investment funds to finance homes for longterm, secure rent?

• Reference: 2020/3544
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 15 October 2020

Can you update me on your work to explore the full range of options available to maximise best value from publicly owned land in London?

• Reference: 2020/3543
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 15 October 2020

How have you worked with councils, housing associations and co-operatives to help them invest their land and resources effectively? Particularly around their right-to-buy receipts and resources from smaller organisations.

• Reference: 2020/3542
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 15 October 2020

Which boroughs have local affordable housing targets? Please provide details of what those targets are.

• Reference: 2020/3541
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 15 October 2020

How many applications have you called in because you a) are not satisfied with the viability information submitted by the applicant, the assumptions that underpin the information, or the level of scrutiny given by the LPA; b) considers the viability information submitted may suggest a higher level of affordable housing could reasonably be provided; or c) because a significant contribution to affordable housing could be forgone due to other grounds and you want to review the weight the LPA has given to competing planning objectives?

• Reference: 2020/3540
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 15 October 2020

What advice, support, and assistance for smaller housing associations who have an appetite to develop their homebuilding capacity? What funding have you provided? What discussions have you had with partners about the additional support they would require to increase their affordable housing delivery?

• Reference: 2020/3539
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 15 October 2020

In July 2017 you announced eight new strategic partnerships with housing associations, that would deliver 38,500 genuinely affordable homes. Have you agreed any further strategic partnerships? Please provide details on how many genuinely affordable homes each of your current strategic partners are due to deliver.