• Reference: 2016/3876
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 19 October 2016

What consideration has been given for the Met Police to replace the 16+1 ethnicity code with the ethnicity categories known as 18+1 to include Gypsies and Irish Travellers?

• Reference: 2016/3875
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 19 October 2016

Do you support the Traveller Movement's Operation Report Hate campaign, and if so, what steps will you take to raise awareness of hate crimes against Gypsies, Travellers and Roma?

• Reference: 2016/3874
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 19 October 2016

Recently the Barking and Dagenham Chamber of Commerce met with the local business community, Members of Parliament Jon Cruddas for Dagenham and Rainham, and Mike Gapes for Ilford South, and representatives from the Metropolitan Police and councils covering the boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Redbridge, and Havering. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss a cross border, tri-borough approach to the growing issue of unlawful encampments in the respective areas. The meeting which was formulated around creating a multi-agency cross border team with the authority, working with police elements to move members of the travelling community on before any...

• Reference: 2016/3873
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 19 October 2016

Please confirm the uplift in affordable housing units since your election in May 2016 a. Within the OPDC area. b. Within the LLDC area. c. Across all applications. Please provide this information by tenure.

• Reference: 2016/3872
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 19 October 2016

Is the Mayor supportive of Rent to Buy models?

• Reference: 2016/3870
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 19 October 2016

How can the Mayor work with central government to ensure any slowing in house prices does not spook housing delivery within the capital?

• Reference: 2016/3869
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 19 October 2016

Does the Mayor have plans to work with Registered Social Landlords to introduce the London Living Wage to existing affordable rent units?

• Reference: 2016/3868
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 19 October 2016

I welcome the introduction of the London Living Rent. How will the GLA monitor changes in income on a local level, how regularly and through which mechanism will this feed through to rent levels?

• Reference: 2016/3867
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 19 October 2016

How can you ensure the research on the impact of Overseas Propoerty Ownership measures not only the economic impact of overseas investment on London's housing market but the local impact of high levels of property ownership on neighbourhood amenity and communities?

• Reference: 2016/3865
• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 19 October 2016

As an MP, the Mayor was a registered supporter of the Energy Bill Revolution, a national campaign to end fuel poverty by bringing all homes occupied by low-income households up to a good energy efficiency standard, of Energy Performance (EPC) Band C by 2025. The latest statistics in the Housing in London report 2015 say that under 20% of all homes in London currently meet this good standard. What specific steps will the Mayor be taking to ensure that homes in London are brought up to a good standard by 2025, in order to solve the cold homes crisis in...