• Reference: 2012/1837
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 13 June 2012

When do you expect to publish the business plan and budget for your new Housing and Land Directorate?

• Reference: 2012/1836
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 13 June 2012

Of the £8.4 million committed to rough sleepers initiatives in 2011/12, how much was spent?

• Reference: 2012/1835
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 13 June 2012

Will you agree to publish a copy of your response to the Government's consultation on reinvigorating the Right to Buy scheme?

• Reference: 2012/1834
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 13 June 2012

Does the revised Right to Buy scheme conflict with your existing housing policy which states that loss of housing, including affordable housing, should be resisted unless it can be replaced at existing or higher densities with at least equivalent floorspace (Policy 3.14b, London Plan)?

• Reference: 2012/1833
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 13 June 2012

What is your assessment of recent changes to the Right to Buy scheme which allow for local councils to pass receipts from Right to Buy sales to Whitehall to help deliver one-for-one replacement at a national level? Do you anticipate a net loss of affordable housing in London as result of this policy?

• Reference: 2012/1832
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 13 June 2012

What additional measures will you introduce to combat the worrying rise in drug related and sexual offences that we have seen in the latest round of crime figures?

• Reference: 2012/1831
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 13 June 2012

Further to question 1156/2012, how many PCSOs failed the recruitment checks at the end of March 2012? How much was spent on training recruits who ultimately failed the recruitment checks?

• Reference: 2012/1830
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 13 June 2012

In your answer to MQT 1167/2012 you provided a welcome and comprehensive update on the steps you have taken to overcome the regulations regarding two way cycling on one way streets. Are you confident that in 2012 we will see many more one way streets being made two way for cyclists?

• Reference: 2012/1829
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 13 June 2012

In answering MQT 1159/2012 you sighted safety concerns regarding the use of escalators and evacuating trains as the reason why children's bicycles cannot be taken on the underground. Could you please explain why these concerns do not apply to large suitcases which can be up to a metre long and half a metre wide which are often seen on the underground?

• Reference: 2012/1828
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 13 June 2012

Chiltern Railways are proposing to reduce the number of services that stop at Sudbury station. What representations will you make to Chiltern Railways to ensure that this group of Londoners do not lose their rail services?