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  • Reference: 2018/0244
  • Question by: Andrew Dismore
  • Meeting date: 18 January 2018
The Law Society has warned that countries that participate in Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) can include limits to the agreement's scope. When it comes to legal services this means that lawyers wishing to practise in other jurisdictions may have to live in that country, register with the local bar and seek full admission to that bar. If this happens to Britain's relationship with the EU, then it will be a much more bureaucratic and inflexible model than we currently have, where lawyers can simply fly in and fly out to advise. What steps are you taking to ensure a good...

Millbrook Park Estate

  • Reference: 2018/0243
  • Question by: Andrew Dismore
  • Meeting date: 18 January 2018
Millbrook Park estate in Mill Hill East (NW7) is a huge new build estate where residents are facing what in my view amount to scams; astronomical service charges and arbitrary and routine ground rent increases, including a doubling this year and poor standards of workmanship for repairs and building faults. As well as flats, the estate includes a large number of houses that were sold on a leasehold basis too. What can you do to take on any freeholders who exploit leaseholders in this way?

Police merged boroughs pathfinder evaluation

  • Reference: 2018/0242
  • Question by: Andrew Dismore
  • Meeting date: 18 January 2018
When do you expect the evaluation to be completed; and why has it been delayed?

Senior Coroner for Inner North London

  • Reference: 2018/0241
  • Question by: Andrew Dismore
  • Meeting date: 18 January 2018
Are you aware of the concerns of Jewish and Muslim residents of inner North London, over the conduct of the Senior Coroner for Inner North London, who in the past and now again, has failed to respect the particular requirements of those faiths concerning the deceased, including the prompt release of bodies for burial in accordance with faith requirements and invasive autopsies, amongst other concerns. Will you look into these matters and make appropriate representations to the Ministry of Justice?

Police officers vetting potential neighbours (2)

  • Reference: 2018/0238
  • Question by: Unmesh Desai
  • Meeting date: 18 January 2018
The College of Policing's Guidelines state police data should not be used in this way. Do MOPAC ever choose to not follow the guidance of the College of Policing and if so, how are decisions which contradict this guidance taken?

Police officers vetting potential neighbours (1)

  • Reference: 2018/0237
  • Question by: Unmesh Desai
  • Meeting date: 18 January 2018
Police Oracle have reported that officers should be allowed to use police computers to vet potential neighbours when they move house. Is this MOPAC and the Met's position?

Crossrail Buses consultation

  • Reference: 2018/0236
  • Question by: Unmesh Desai
  • Meeting date: 18 January 2018
Over the summer TfL consulted on a number of changes to bus routes in West, South-East and North-East London in preparation for the opening of the Elizabeth Line. This consultation closed on 17th September. When will the results of this consultation be published?

The London Authorities (Parks and Open Spaces) Order

  • Reference: 2018/0235
  • Question by: Unmesh Desai
  • Meeting date: 18 January 2018
A constituent has asked me to enquire whether any land, transferred under The London Authorities (Parks and Open Spaces) Order 1971, has been offered or passed back to the GLA because the boroughs to whom it was transferred did not wish to maintain the Parks and Open Spaces Order restrictions?

Family Size Housing

  • Reference: 2018/0234
  • Question by: Tom Copley
  • Meeting date: 18 January 2018
Please outline for me the specific policies that you are introducing, which will encourage single people or couples to downsize from larger properties to smaller sized homes, in order to free up family sized homes in London?

Affordable Homes

  • Reference: 2018/0233
  • Question by: Tom Copley
  • Meeting date: 18 January 2018
The draft London Plan sets a strategic target of 50% of all new homes to be affordable. What steps are you taking, aside from the 'Fast Track Route', to empower more developers and small builders to produce more genuinely affordable homes?
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