• Reference: 2025/0869
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Thank you for your answer to Mayor’s question 2025/0281, in which you pointed me to ‘Housing Research Note 10 - The affordability impacts of new housing supply: A summary of recent research’. This literature review acknowledges that new housing developments can drive displacement in low-income areas. Are you concerned about these displacement risks, and how are you monitoring and seeking to mitigate the equalities impacts of displacement?

• Reference: 2025/0868
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Thank you for your answer to Mayor’s question 2025/0281, in which you pointed me to ‘Housing Research Note 10 - The affordability impacts of new housing supply: A summary of recent research’. Do you plan to fund research focused on London to test the conclusions from this literature review, which primarily uses international examples?

• Reference: 2025/0867
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Your table of ‘Estate regeneration projects where the GLA has approved funding since introducing the Resident Ballot Requirement’ was updated in November 2024, but only covers up to 29 March 2023. When will you publish data on covering the remainder of 2023, and 2024?

• Reference: 2025/0866
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Could you provide a list of estates the GLA has worked with in the last six months to develop ballots and landlord offers?

• Reference: 2025/0865
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Last year, you invested £120,000 in a pilot scheme giving damp and mould sensors to 18 boroughs to help landlords identify and tackle damp and mould. When will you provide the results and an evaluation of this pilot?

• Reference: 2025/0864
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Thank you for your answer to Mayor’s question 2024/2080, in which you said you are ‘creating a PRS Qualification to train up new enforcement officers’. What progress have you made developing this qualification, and how many new enforcement officers have been trained up using it?

• Reference: 2025/0863
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

On 6 March 2025 the BBC reported that at least 33 people had been unwell after they took a substance they thought was heroin. It was also reported that Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officers gave emergency first aid to a man with those actions likely saving his life. In light of this, will the MPS reconsider its answer to my question 2024/1881 and review its policy regarding officers carrying naloxone?

• Reference: 2025/0862
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

In response to the Police and Crime Committee’s report on preventing violence and protecting young people the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) said: “In spring, our Safer Schools Officers will transition to become Dedicated Ward Officers, strengthening our neighbourhood policing teams. The new model will maintain strong links with schools, whilst focusing on boosting police presence in the community and those places where people face the greatest risk, for example, in those transitional spaces, like the journey from home to school.” How many young people’s organisations have been consulted by the MPS regarding these changes?

• Reference: 2025/0861
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Ahead of the publication of the document “MOPAC Budget 2025-26: update on Metropolitan Police Service ‘tough choices’” did the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) complete a value for money assessment of Safer Schools Officers (SSOs) and police in schools?

• Reference: 2025/0860
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Could you share with me the business case the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) used to make the decision to increase the number of Safer Schools Officers (SSOs) and police in schools over the period from 2010 to 2020, where the numbers of SSOs nearly doubled, and what business case has been presented for the change in delivery?