• Question by: Sem Moema
• Meeting date: 18 July 2024

Sem Moema AM: Thank you. Really briefly, just to piggyback off what Assembly Member Duvall has talked about, I wanted to ask you about previous comments you made about the possibilities that multiyear funding deals would offer, not just around housing but also around transport. I think of the schemes that we have talked about that TfL, for example, is bringing forward to build homes on its own land and juxtaposing that with the defence of carparks, which for some reason is still ongoing in the public sphere in some areas. Just in my own constituency, we have Leyton Mills...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 18 July 2024

Len Duvall AM (Deputy Chair): Thank you, Chair. There are lots of problems about providing new homes to London. One of those is capacity. The Government has rightly identified the lack of planning officers in terms of that. What is your view on that particular issue, the capacity issue? What would speed up some of the issues in London, given our experience to date around some of those issues?