• Reference: 2012/0558
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 22 February 2012

What is the Mayor's estimate of how many council homes for rent will be a) started and b) completed in each year from 2011/12 to 2014/15 for each London borough?

• Reference: 2012/0557
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 22 February 2012

You constantly reference the rent agreement you have supposedly negotiated with housing associations to ensure rents on new Affordable Rent homes will be on average 65% of the local market rent. This agreement is time limited until April 2015. You also plan that 60% of all new affordable homes delivered in London will be Affordable Rent or conventional social rent for the 20 year lifetime of the London Plan (although you have decided to not provide grants for social housing, effectively removing it as a state funded tenure). By having a rent agreement that lasts until 2015, but a target...

• Reference: 2012/0556
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 22 February 2012

Last month I asked if you believe Affordable Rent and social rented housing meet the same housing need (127/2012). You said 'that is the purpose of the Affordable Rent product, as set out in national planning policy'. Given the ability of the 'Affordable Rent' tenure to more than double the rent of those considered by the Government as being in the same housing need, do you believe the national planning policy is right?

• Reference: 2012/0555
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 22 February 2012

Last July you issued a press release ('Mayor secures £1 billion a year affordable homes package for London', 14 July 2011) detailing that you had 'secured an agreement that (Affordable Rent) rents in London will only be charged at an average of 65 per cent of market rent, and will not exceed new benefit caps'. In December you said only 40 out of 60 contracts had been signed and we understand from London Councils that the boroughs were only 'presented with bids in late August and early September' (Landlords stuck in affordable rents stand-off, Inside Housing 23 September 2011). a)...

• Reference: 2012/0554
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 22 February 2012

Have all the contracts between the Mayor/HCA and housing associations for affordable housing delivery been confirmed and signed?

• Reference: 2012/0553
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 22 February 2012

When will the contracts between the Mayor/HCA and housing associations be published? Why have they not been published yet?

• Reference: 2012/0552
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 22 February 2012

In the contracts agreed by the Mayor/HCA for the London Affordable Housing programme to date what is the average estimated rent for a) one-bed, b) two-bed, c) three-bed, and 4) four-bed or more properties?

• Reference: 2012/0551
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 22 February 2012

In the contracts agreed by the Mayor/HCA for the London Affordable Housing programme how many re-lets of existing homes have been agreed will be switched from social rent to affordable rent for each London borough in each year from 2011/12 to 2015/16?

• Reference: 2012/0550
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 22 February 2012

In the contracts agreed by the Mayor/HCA for the London Affordable Housing programme to date how many homes a) for affordable rent, b) for conventional social rent, c) for shared ownership and d) for intermediate part rent part buy have been agreed to be i) started and ii) completed for 1) 2011/12, 2) 2012/13, 3) 2013/14, 4) 2014/15, 5) 2015/16 and 6) subsequent years for each London borough?

• Reference: 2012/0549
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 22 February 2012

What, if any, will be the cost of transferring land and other assets from the current owners to the Olympic Park Mayoral Development Corporation?