• Reference: 2019/14474
• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

Did you respond to the Low Pay Commission’s consultation into the National Minimum Wage from 2020, and if so, can you share a copy with me?

• Reference: 2019/14471
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

Can you confirm that any information given by a member of the public, concerned about the welfare of a rough sleeper in London, through the Streetlink app or website, will be protected by the GDPR and retained only by the relevant local authorities and outreach services, to be used only to assist individual rough sleepers? Please can you provide reassurance to Londoners that their concern and generosity do not unwittingly contribute to what is in my view, the Government’s cruel “Hostile Environment” policy and the deportation of non-UK rough sleepers.

• Reference: 2019/14470
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

Do the GLA, StreetLink or any of the charities involved in the “TAP London” project participate in the Home Office’s “Rough Sleeper Support Service” (RSSS) programme, and/or pass on personal information about a rough sleeper to the Home Office or other Government agency without the individual’s consent?

• Reference: 2019/14469
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

Following your response to question 2019/12132, could you provide: the size of each site in hectares; whether the GLA has purchased the freehold or leasehold, or whether it is a loan facility to the existing land owner; if leasehold, the name of the freeholder; if loan facility, the loan term length and expected return to the GLA.

• Reference: 2019/14468
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

Could you provide the number of affordable housing acquisitions – as distinct from new build starts and completions – that the GLA has funded in each of the last five years, broken down by London Borough, and including the total amount of grant given in each case.

• Reference: 2019/14467
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

Following your responses to questions 2019/6235 and 2019/6236, I welcome your work to encourage boroughs to take up funding for new or remodelled Gypsy and Traveller sites and pitches. However, your response shows that since 2007/08, only 24 new pitches have been provided. The need identified in your new London Plan was for 484. Additional pitches have only been provided in 7 boroughs in the past ten years, while there is an identified need in 30 London Boroughs. Would you consider setting aside a specific funding pot for Gypsy and Traveller accommodation given that recent delivery has been so low?

• Reference: 2019/14466
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

The Government has committed to ending leasehold for all new houses (but not flats), and capping ground rents on new leases to £0. London has a much higher proportion of people living in flats and new build flats than the rest of the country though, so would you work with Government to explore alternatives to leasehold – such as commonhold – so that new build owners in London are not disadvantaged compared to the rest of the country?

• Reference: 2019/14465
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

The City Hall web page on London Living Rent (LLR) states, “The GLA publishes maximum monthly rents by number of bedrooms for new LLR homes (inclusive of service charges) in every ward in London, and updates these figures each September.” Could you confirm that London Living Rent levels do indeed include service charge? If so, would it not be right for London Shared Ownership service charges to be included in the rental portion too?

• Reference: 2019/14464
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

Can a new home let as London Living Rent be resold/re-let as Shared Ownership if the original tenants decide to move out? And vice-versa, can a Shared Ownership home subsequently be let as a London Living Rent property? If so, how will this be recorded in your data?

• Reference: 2019/14463
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

Following your response to questions 2019/12135 and 2019/12136, if the decision as to whether an intermediate home will be used as London Living Rent or London Shared Ownership is left open to the point of first occupation, and you do not know how many London Living Rent homes are currently being let, how do you know whether or not a home is LLR or Shared Ownership? Without this data, how can you evaluate the effectiveness of LLR as a product?