• Reference: 2014/2447
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 02 July 2014

Why did you reject the proposals in the Labour Group's Budget Amendment for the financial year 2014/15 to part-fund additional private rented sector enforcement officers and private tenants representative groups in each London borough?

• Reference: 2014/2446
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 02 July 2014

With regards to your response to question 2014/1952, what elements of regulation do you believe could be more efficiently applied and how?

• Reference: 2014/2445
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 02 July 2014

Please provide the data for New York, Berlin and London that you reference in response to question 2014/1950.

• Reference: 2014/2444
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 02 July 2014

With regards to your response to question 2014/1949, can I interpret this to mean you do not believe that the high cost of private sector rent prevents many London's from saving enough money for a deposit?

• Reference: 2014/2443
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 02 July 2014

With regards to your response to question 2014/1948, do you believe that Londoners on low-incomes, who struggle to afford to live in the capital, will appreciate your, in my opinion, dispassionate view on the cost of housing and rents?

• Reference: 2014/2442
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 02 July 2014

With regards to your response to question 2014/1946, if you support the DCLG's 'How to Rent' guide, why did you not set up a similar scheme when we proposed it in our budget amendment for the financial years' 2013/14 and 2014/15 and when the Housing and Regeneration Committee proposed it in June 2013?

• Reference: 2014/2441
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 02 July 2014

With regards to your response to question 2014/1944, would you not agree that the fear of retaliatory eviction needs to be tackled through empowering tenants?

• Reference: 2014/2440
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 02 July 2014

With regards to your response to question 2014/1942, when is the LEP's economic development plan due to be published?

• Reference: 2014/2439
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 02 July 2014

With regards to your response to question 2014/1941, clearly I do not believe you set house prices in London, but surely you have an opinion on whether house prices are currently too high?

• Reference: 2014/2438
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 02 July 2014

In June you told Bloomberg Television that high property prices are "the right problem to have". Do you think that low- to middle-income households that have been locked out of home ownership because of the cost of housing would agree?