• Reference: 2011/1229
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 May 2011

Will you be following the Housing Minister and making available publicly owned land for use by ordinary people to build their own homes? What other support will you offer them?

• Reference: 2011/1228
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 May 2011

Will you press for the new Temporary Empty Homes funding from the HCA to be opened up to community led self-help groups who bring local authority properties back into use? I have visited a number of self-help groups who have managed this in the past using the Temporary Social Housing Grant, which is no longer available, and I understand that the new funding cannot be used to bring local authority owned properties back into use.

• Reference: 2011/1227
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 May 2011

I understand that there have been over eighty expressions of interest from self-help housing groups for some of the £100m of empty homes funding available from the HCA. Self-help groups who receive an allocation will then have to register with the TSA and complete the pre-qualification process with the HCA. Will you ensure that these processes are proportionate so that self-help groups in London get a decent slice of the funding?

• Reference: 2011/1226
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 May 2011

Regardless of the level of funding from the Government, do you recognise Homeless Link's estimates of cuts to homelessness services in London last year, and their estimates of 23% cuts to come in 2011/12, from all funding sources?

• Reference: 2011/1225
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 May 2011

Why did your office tell BBC London News that the figure of 38,840 homes was for starts and not completions? Will you now commit to the Code of Practice for Official Statistics, protecting public trust in your statistics by publishing them in full before you make any announcements based upon them?

• Reference: 2011/1224
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 May 2011

What will you do if a borough decides to lower its affordable homes target in order to focus their resources on more affordable homes let at the Social Rent level?

• Reference: 2011/1223
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 May 2011

Will you follow the London Borough of Islington and use land owned by the GLA group to subsidise new social rented homes in the absence of Government grant?

• Reference: 2011/1222
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 May 2011

Has any guarantee been given to Wandsworth or Redbridge councils that officers allocated to park patrols will not be abstracted to other duties?

• Reference: 2011/1221
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 May 2011

Do you think that providing the free police officers to patrol what have been described as some of London's safest parks in Wandsworth and Redbridge represents good value for money for the Metropolitan Police?

• Reference: 2011/1220
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 May 2011

In the buy one get one free offer made to boroughs, did the Mayor or Metropolitan Police suggest that police officers could be used to replace current park patrols?