• Reference: 2025/2210
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Where developers do not meet your affordable housing thresholds in a proposed development, they can use the viability testing route to reduce their affordable housing commitments. Typically there is a mismatch in resources and expertise between councils and developers, meaning developers’ determination of what is viable often cannot be effectively scrutinised by councils. How are you supporting councils to ensure they can secure the highest levels of affordable housing for their local residents?

• Reference: 2025/2209
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Given the London Plan consultation is still not publicly available in a full range of accessible formats, will you extend the consultation deadline to ensure the voices of Deaf and Disabled Londoners can still inform the next London Plan?

• Reference: 2025/2208
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

In February, the Common Wealth thinktank published its report, Open for Business or Up for Sale? Institutional Investors in the UK Real Estate Market. What is your assessment of the risks of welcoming institutional investors into the London housing market, especially through products like Build to Rent?

• Reference: 2025/2207
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

During the London Assembly Housing Committee’s meeting in March, Josh Ryan-Collins from the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose reported that London has more than twice the amount of under-occupied than overcrowded housing. What steps are you taking to improve the use of the existing housing stock to tackle overcrowding?

• Reference: 2025/2206
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

In February 2025, the Roma Support Group published their report, Roma housing in London: Barriers and inequalities. What learning did you take from this report and what action are you taking on its recommendations to the GLA?

• Reference: 2025/2205
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Transport for London’s (TfL) portfolio agreement means they can propose 35 per cent affordable housing on a public land development without the need for viability testing, rather than the standard 50 per cent for developments on public land. Many of their schemes have come forward with 35 per cent, or slightly higher at 40 per cent, meaning future schemes will have to provide much higher than proportions of affordable housing to hit their 50 per cent target. How are you ensuring Londoners get the best use of public land by holding TfL to their targets, and when do you intend...

• Reference: 2025/2204
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Thank you for your answer to 2024/3949, in which you reiterated the need for a licensing scheme to regulate short-term lets in London. Central London Forward’s recent report, Short Term Lets in Central London, shows how the problem of short-term lets is becoming even more acute. According to the report, one in 32 London homes were used as short-term lets last year. Regulating this sector, even temporarily, could unlock a significant amount of housing stock overnight to meet housing need. Do you endorse the recommendations in this report, and will you take their asks to Government?

• Reference: 2025/2203
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

What criteria does the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) use when deciding to ask the court to consider a Criminal Behaviour Orders (CBO) or Knife Crime Prevention Orders (KCPO) with conditions relating to music? Is there a policy in place in relation to this?

• Reference: 2025/2202
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

How many Criminal Behaviour Orders (CBO) or Knife Crime Prevention Orders (KCPO) that the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) are aware of are currently in place which include conditions relating to the publication, production or performance of music?

• Reference: 2025/2201
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Is there any intention by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to transcribe or translate lyrics in projects and programmes such as Operation Domain, Project Alpha, and others and if so, how will the accuracy of such work be checked?