• Reference: 2019/20146
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

What was the total budget of the Metropolitan Police Service Roads and Transport Policing Command (RTPC) and the Traffic Criminal Justice Unit in 2019-20, and what is the expected budget for 2020-21? How many full-time equivalent officers were assigned to these units in each of these years?

• Reference: 2019/20145
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

Could you provide details about the turnover of Commanders in each of the Metropolitan Police Service Borough Command Units (BCUs), since new dedicated posts were introduced: a) the average length of service for a Commander for each BCU, b) the total number of Commander changes for each of the BCUs that have occurred, and c) the total number of post-weeks for which Commander posts in BCUs have been unstaffed?

• Reference: 2019/20144
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

The GLA website provides a table showing GLA Housing Starts on Site and Completions for each of your housing grant programmes (https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/housing-and-land/increasing-housin…). However, this table does not differentiate between homes offered at London Living Rent and those offered for Shared Ownership. Could this data be split in future, and could you now provide a version of this table to me that shows which of the starts and completions detailed in each year are homes for shared ownership?

• Reference: 2019/20143
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

On 21 June 2018, you launched a new portal to help Londoners find an affordable home, in place of the London Lettings Agency you promised in your manifesto. At Mayor’s Question Time on 22 March 2018, you said that this portal would promote: “affordable homes for Londoners to rent and buy.” This portal (as of 31 October 2019) offers more than 900 homes to buy, but only one home for rent. This single home to rent is available at discount market rent (i.e. 80 per cent of market rent) and this is a definition of ‘affordable’ that you said you...

• Reference: 2019/20142
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

How are you monitoring borough councils making small sites available for small developers, housing associations, and communities?

• Reference: 2019/20141
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

The Planning Inspectorate’s Report of the Examination in Public of the London Plan 2019 advises you to: “reduce the ten year small site housing targets for boroughs to give a total of 119,250 dwellings (rather than 245,730) and as a consequence reduce the overall housing targets for boroughs to give a total of 522,850 dwellings (rather than 649,350).” Which boroughs have so far identified enough small sites to meet either the requirements of your new London Plan or the reduced targets?

• Reference: 2019/20140
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

Thank you for your answer to my question 2016/1585. Does your methodology for calculating your London Living Rent still not take into account that women may not be able to afford rents based on average wages, since the median gender pay gap in London, according to the latest data in 2018 (https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/gender-pay-gaps), is 17 per cent?

• Reference: 2019/20139
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

Form 696 was rightly discontinued due to concerns about racial inequality. Members of the music industry have contacted me about the need for a new, fair fast-track option to aid licensing approvals for live music venues, especially grassroots venues. Will you ask the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) to introduce this option?

• Reference: 2019/20138
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

Do you agree with UN human rights experts who have said that demolishing Ward’s Corner and the Latin Village in Haringey is a threat to the cultural life of London’s Latin American community ( https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?LangID=E&New…)?

• Reference: 2019/20137
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

The London Music Board provides a great opportunity to support London’s grassroots music scene. Its last reported meeting was on 7 November 2017. Why is this?