• Reference: 2017/2090
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 22 March 2017

Following your response to my question 2016/1585, what progress have you and your team made in establishing a Student Living Rent?

• Reference: 2017/2089
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 22 March 2017

Thank you for your response to my question 2016/3057. On 2 November 2016 the Assembly passed a motion urging you to "continue to press the Government for the devolution of more powers over the private [rented] sector in London". There was no mention of any new renting powers in the Memorandum of Understanding published alongside the Budget on 8 March 2017, so could you give me an update on the progress of your negotiations on landlord licensing powers?

• Reference: 2017/2088
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 March 2017

Small traders at the Elephant and Castle shopping centre are suffering as a result of plans to demolish and redevelop the centre, and have endured many years of uncertainty, planning blight and declining trade. The planning application recently submitted for the centre's redevelopment makes no provision for either retaining small traders or helping them relocate. This shopping centre is at the heart of one of your Opportunity Areas. Will you intervene on behalf of the small traders, many of whom come from black and minority ethnic backgrounds?

• Reference: 2017/2087
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 March 2017

Thank you for your answer to my question 2016/4142 in which you said the GLA will continue to monitor the total number of businesses and jobs in the Old Kent Road area. Could you share your findings so far?

• Reference: 2017/2086
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 March 2017

In answer to my question 2016/3673 you said that you will write to the Government regarding the proposed business rate increase for businesses that own solar panels, which you described as "likely to have a significant detrimental impact upon the financial business case for installing solar PV". What is a) your response to the Chancellor's silence on these proposed business rates in the recent Budget, and b) the potential effect on your forthcoming solar action plan?

• Reference: 2017/2085
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 March 2017

In answer to my question 2016/3040 you said that increasing solar photovoltaics (PV) on schools is a key target for your RE:FIT programme. Have you made an assessment of the proposed business rate increase of up to 400 per cent on schools with solar PV, and its implications on future deployments?

• Reference: 2017/2084
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 March 2017

Regarding your current appraisal of three energy supply company options, when are you planning to announce the outcome?

• Reference: 2017/2083
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 March 2017

According to King's College London, during the highest air pollution alert issued by you in January 2017, alongside traffic pollution wood burning stoves were a contributing factor. As they are currently exempt from pollution controls, will you advise people not to use wood burning stoves in future air pollution alerts?

• Reference: 2017/2082
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 March 2017

According to King's College London research commissioned by Transport for London (TfL) and the GLA on 'understanding the health impacts of air pollution in London', the public health costs of particulate and nitrogen dioxide (N02) emissions, based on 2010 data, were estimated at up to £3.7 billion per annum. Do you have a more recent estimate of the public health costs of air pollution in London?

• Reference: 2017/2081
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 March 2017

In answer to my question 2016/4545 regarding the public health costs associated with the estimated 80,000 Volkswagen (VW) vehicles in London fitted with 'defeat devices', you said "Let me take on board what you have said about the numbers". Have you made any progress calculating VW's contribution to London's public health costs?