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Affordable housing grants by provider and borough (2)

  • Reference: 2020/0069
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 16 January 2020
Can you provide an update to your answer to my question 2017/3002 with new tables detailing all your affordable housing grant allocations to date, by financial year, showing the amount of GLA grant funding and the number of homes? As before, these tables should be broken down by housing provider and by borough and include tenure breakdown by: a) London Affordable Rent (social rent), b) London Living Rent, and c) London Shared Ownership.

Sexual health home testing kits

  • Reference: 2020/0068
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 16 January 2020
A constituent has informed me that home testing kits for sexually transmitted infections are currently being rationed in Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham. What can you do to ensure all Londoners have access to this testing option?

Shared ownership

  • Reference: 2020/0067
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 16 January 2020
Do you believe that shared ownership schemes make genuinely affordable homes available to a wide enough range of Londoners?

Sexual exploitation by rogue landlords

  • Reference: 2020/0066
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 16 January 2020
How many: a) investigations, and b) prosecutions have there been in cases of ‘sex for rent’ sexual exploitation by rogue landlords?

London Working Rent

  • Reference: 2020/0065
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 16 January 2020
In 2018/3062 you and Transport for London (TfL) committed to work with the East End Trades Guild (EETG) regarding affordable rents for small businesses. What work have you done to: a) introduce affordable working rents for small business tenants across London, and b) develop a “flexible formula of rental affordability for small and micro businesses”?

London Living Wage and the GLA

  • Reference: 2020/0064
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 16 January 2020
Do you ensure that any companies and businesses you work with, promote through any Mayoral schemes, or those awarded grants, pay all their employees and apprentices at least the London Living Wage (LLW)? If not, what proportion of each type of organisation you work with currently pays at least the LLW?

Woolwich Ferry and Briggs Marine

  • Reference: 2020/0063
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 16 January 2020
Thank you for your answer to my question 2019/19678 about the Woolwich Ferry contract. Staff have also raised concerns about basic pay by the current operator, Briggs Marine, not meeting the London Living Wage (LLW). Can you ensure that any historic pay disputes are resolved in line with Transport for London (TfL) policy on wages and that any future contract will ensure all employees are given a package that includes basic pay at the LLW rate?

Single decker bus safety

  • Reference: 2020/0062
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 16 January 2020
I was saddened to hear of the death of a bus driver in a serious crash between a Private Hire Vehicle (PHV) and two single decker Transport for London (TfL) buses on 31 October 2019. What assessment does TfL have of the effectiveness of safety features on single decker buses, compared with double decker buses?

Proportion of Londoners living near cycle routes

  • Reference: 2020/0061
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 16 January 2020
The target in your Transport Strategy is for 70 per cent of Londoners to live within 400 metres of a high-quality cycle route by 2041. Can you show, by borough, what proportion of Londoners are currently living within 400 metres of a high-quality cycle route?

Road traffic reduction and Vision Zero

  • Reference: 2020/0060
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 16 January 2020
Recent reports from the city of Oslo, where there was only one road traffic death in 2019, have highlighted the impact of traffic reduction on road danger. What assessments and data does Transport for London (TfL) have concerning the relationship between traffic volumes and road danger?
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