• Reference: 2024/3949
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

Thank you for your answer to MQ 2024/3240, in which you echoed my concern about short term lets and outlined your action to date. As you did with the last Government, will you publicly call on this Government to devolve more powers to London to set up a licensing system for short-term lets?

• Reference: 2024/3948
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

What consideration have you given to reforming planning rules in conservation areas to accelerate decarbonisation?

• Reference: 2024/3947
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

A report by UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, ‘The demand for housing as an investment: Drivers, outcomes and policy interventions to enhance housing affordability in the UK’, published this month, describes how the demand for housing as an investment continues to fuel rising house prices. What options are you exploring in the revision of the London Plan and otherwise to restrict opportunities for speculative investment?

• Reference: 2024/3946
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

How are you tracking second or multiple home ownership in the new build residential market?

• Reference: 2024/3945
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

How are you tracking overseas investment in the London new-build residential market?

• Reference: 2024/3944
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

Are your London Plan team working to designate new Opportunity Areas in the next iteration of the London Plan? If so, by what criteria is being used to designate these areas?

• Reference: 2024/3943
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

Constituents I have spoken to are concerned London’s 47 Opportunity Areas are not delivering the right results for local residents. Could you confirm: a) what new ways of monitoring the Opportunity Areas are being developed, b) when these will be made publicly available, c) at what intervals will this data be published (i.e. within Annual Monitoring Reports, or more frequently), and d) how are you engaging with residents in these areas?

• Reference: 2024/3942
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

Thank you for your answer to question 2022/0049 about a limited trial in three London boroughs for 18-24 year olds found in possession of a small amount of cannabis. In your response you said you were still “assessing the viability of this pilot.” Can you provide me with an update on the progress of this pilot since your initial answer?

• Reference: 2024/3941
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

What work is MOPAC and your Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime doing with coroners in London to improve the accuracy of reporting data around drug deaths so we can understand the scale of the issue better?

• Reference: 2024/3940
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

Thank you for your answer to question 2023/3098. Since your answer to that question can you tell me what progress the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has made on pre-arrest drug diversion and if relevant how many people have gone through the pre-arrest drug diversion system in a table broken down by ethnicity, gender, age and borough?