• Reference: 2012/3862
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

You have previously described the potential for pension funds to boost investment in housing as the "holy grail". Further to your recent meetings, what interest has there been among institutional investors for long term investment in housing?

• Reference: 2012/3861
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

What steps have you taken to encourage greater investment in the build-to-let market following Sir Adrian Montagu's review of the barriers to institutional investment? Have you considered making any GLA-owned sites available to developers on the basis of a pre-determined volume of build-to-let space?

• Reference: 2012/3860
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Will you consider bringing forward the completion date of affordable homes in your current programme to ensure that the economic benefits of housebuilding are not lost to future years?

• Reference: 2012/3859
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

How you will meet your target to build 55,000 affordable homes by 2015 when only 425 homes have been started - and just over 1,500 completed - in the first half of this year? Please outline the average time taken to build a new home under the current programme.

• Reference: 2012/3858
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

What steps are TfL taking to promote the Cabwise service over the festive period, and what additional resource is being put in to tackle illegal plying for hire by minicabs?

• Reference: 2012/3857
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

You have pledged that 'no front counter will be closed until an alternative facility has been opened' [MQ 3384/2012]. Can you provide assurances that not only will a replacement front counter be opened, if Rotherhithe police station closes, but that a replacement police base will be provided locally for Safer Neighbourhood Teams, so that they do not have to waste valuable patrolling time crossing the borough?

• Reference: 2012/3856
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

You have pledged that 'no front counter will be closed until an alternative facility has been opened' [MQ 3384/2012]. Can you provide assurances that not only will a replacement front counter be opened but that a replacement police base will be provided in Dulwich for Safer Neighbourhood Teams, so that they do not have to waste valuable patrolling time crossing the borough?

• Reference: 2012/3855
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

How much was spent by policing the areas around London football stadiums in 2011-12 and 2012-13 to date, broken down by team or stadium involved, and how much of these costs were recovered by the police?

• Reference: 2012/3854
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Eighteen London Boroughs received Home Office Ending Gang and Youth Violence funding in 2012-13. Given that tackling youth crime and violence in London are a priority, have you met with government to discuss whether funding for the valuable initiatives started under this programme will be available in 2013-14? Will you look at directly funding work in 2013-14?

• Reference: 2012/3853
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

The Deputy Commissioner recently stated that the Metropolitan Police is more expensive than any of the other 42 forces in England and Wales with their support functions costing £93.40 per head compared with £51.50 per head. How much could the Met save if these support costs were brought in line with comparable forces?