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Audits of Gypsy and Traveller sites (1)

  • Reference: 2024/4022
  • Question by: Zoë Garbett
  • Meeting date: 19 December 2024
There are not any London councils who have yet completed and shared health and safety audit reports on the Gypsy and Traveller sites in their boroughs, despite the fact a fresh suite of audits should have been prompted by the 2021 London Plan. What are the reasons councils are reporting for these delays, and what are you doing to ensure councils address this complete failure of oversight as soon as possible?

Estate ballot process problems

  • Reference: 2024/4021
  • Question by: Zoë Garbett
  • Meeting date: 19 December 2024
What issues have been raised to you about problems with the estate resident ballot process; what issues have you discovered as the new ballot process is now in practice; and how do you intend to address these?

Obsolete homes funding (2)

  • Reference: 2024/4020
  • Question by: Zoë Garbett
  • Meeting date: 19 December 2024
In a letter from the Head of Programme Management in your Housing and Land team to the Chair of the London Assembly Budget and Performance Committee, dated 25 October 2023, they said: “the GLA is estimating that £173.5m of the funding approved for projects in the Affordable Housing Programme 2021-26 will be applied to homes replacing obsolete units.” What is the latest estimate of how much AHP 2021-26 funding is going towards replacing ‘obsolete’ units, and how many units does this equate to?

October 2024 ministerial roundtable on housing

  • Reference: 2024/4019
  • Question by: Zoë Garbett
  • Meeting date: 19 December 2024
On Wednesday 23 October, the Minister for Housing and your Deputy Mayor for Housing and Residential Development held a roundtable on increasing supply of housing in London. Will you publish the minutes of this meeting?

SINC designation

  • Reference: 2024/4018
  • Question by: Zoë Garbett
  • Meeting date: 19 December 2024
Constituents in Enfield have raised concerns that Whitewebbs Park was not recognised as a Site of Importance for Nature Conservation (SINC) by their council in its latest review in 2020, despite it being an ecologically rich area, surrounded by and connecting other SINCs. Residents are concerned that this means its conservation value will not be adequately considered in a proposed development on the park, currently being considered by the council. Given you define how SINCs should be selected via your Environment Strategy could you tell me: a) what assessment did you make of Enfield’s decision not to award this area...

Economic benefits from falling house prices (2)

  • Reference: 2024/4017
  • Question by: Zoë Garbett
  • Meeting date: 19 December 2024
You launched your £50 million Estate Regeneration Fund in October 2024, to accelerate development on ‘stalled’ sites. Could you provide information on: a) how many bids you have received to date, b) what sites they relate to, c) whether they have been successful, and d) how much funding has been allocated in total?

Economic benefits from falling house prices (1)

  • Reference: 2024/4016
  • Question by: Zoë Garbett
  • Meeting date: 19 December 2024
In a report published by the GLA on 11 November 2024, you outlined the benefits falling house prices in London could have on economic productivity. What steps are you planning to take to help precipitate a steady decline in house prices in London?

High Streets Data Service data collection (3)

  • Reference: 2024/4015
  • Question by: Zoë Garbett
  • Meeting date: 19 December 2024
Thank you for your answers to MQ 2024/3242 and MQ 2024/3243, in which you described the range of data collected by the High Streets Data Service. Will you provide Assembly Members with access to the Service, so we can better understand data collected and associated methodologies on behalf of our constituents?

MPS disability discrimination response

  • Reference: 2024/4014
  • Question by: Zoë Garbett
  • Meeting date: 19 December 2024
The Baroness Casey Review said that despite the high levels of disability discrimination and employment tribunals relating to disability issues, with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) not showing ‘sufficient curiosity as to why this apparent pattern has emerged’, and ‘no willingness to learn from these cases’. Could you tell me a) what is the MPS doing to counter the lack of curiosity regarding the high number of disability discrimination cases and employment tribunals, b) what Disabled representatives are being consulted, c) what policy and practices are being changed in the MPS, and d) how the MPS is responding differently to...

Communicating about MPS disability improvements

  • Reference: 2024/4013
  • Question by: Zoë Garbett
  • Meeting date: 19 December 2024
How is the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) informing Londoners about the work it is doing to improve how disability and Disablism is treated in the MPS?
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