• Reference: 2025/3973
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 November 2025

Your emergency housebuilding measures cut affordable housing expectations on developers to 20 per cent and community infrastructure levy (CIL) contributions by half. What do you expect the equalities impacts will be of these decisions?

• Reference: 2025/3972
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 November 2025

You have previously credited your 35 per cent housing threshold with controlling the cost of developable land in London. Your emergency housebuilding measures dramatically reduce affordable housing requirements on private developments, as well as removing other demands on developers. What impact will these substantial changes have on the value of land in London, and therefore the ability of housing associations and councils to build higher proportions of affordable housing in the future?

• Reference: 2025/3971
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 November 2025

In October, two Planning Inspectorate inquiries began into two developments unanimously rejected by their respective local councils – the Truman Brewery development in Tower Hamlets, and the Aylesham Centre development in Southwark. Developers behind both projects appealed to the Planning Inspectorate to bypass the scrutiny of these councils and the GLA, for schemes with extremely low proportions of social and affordable housing put forward. Are you concerned by this trend of developers attempting to bypass local scrutiny and accountability?

• Reference: 2025/3970
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 November 2025

Thank you for your answer to MQ 2025/3513, in which you shared the number of people rejected from the Seaside and Country Homes scheme in the last three years. Could you provide a breakdown of: a) how many of these rejections are attributed to a ‘history of anti-social behaviour’, and b) how many of these rejections are attributed to rent arrears?

• Reference: 2025/3969
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 November 2025

Thank you for your answer to my question 2025/3126. For the answer you provided could you tell me how many of those Regulation 12 and Regulation 13 Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officers were in their probationary period? Please provide this data categorised by ethnicity.

• Reference: 2025/3968
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 November 2025

An article in The Daily Mirror on 25 October 2025 mentioned the alleged cover-up of the involvement of Freemasons and Catenians in the Lambeth child sexual abuse scandal and the work of Shirley Oaks Survivors Association (SOSA) trying to get justice for victims. Will you work with MOPAC and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) to investigate the role of Freemasons and Catenians in covering up child abuse in Lambeth?

• Reference: 2025/3967
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 November 2025

An article in The Daily Mirror on 25 October 2025 mentioned the alleged cover-up of the involvement of Freemasons and Catenians in the Lambeth child sexual abuse scandal and the work of Shirley Oaks Survivors Association (SOSA) trying to get justice for victims. Will you: a) agree to meet with Imran Khan KC and SOSA to help them get justice for the more than 2,000 survivors, and b) facilitate a meeting between Imran Khan KC, SOSA, and the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service?

• Reference: 2025/3966
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 November 2025

A constituent has written to me concerned about the links between bike safety and illegal immigration the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) is making in their public communications. They have also expressed their concern to me about the deployment of regular MPS resources in tandem with Home Office immigration enforcement staff and the promotion of this after the fact. How are you working with the MPS to ensure their resources are going towards keeping people safe rather than trying to remove our friends and neighbours from the country?

• Reference: 2025/3965
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 November 2025

What discussions did MOPAC have with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) about including, or not, an evaluation of the precision stop and search pilot includes recording of things such as type of drug found and the number of drug-related stop and searches that end in no further action as well as positive outcomes in order to fulfil a recommendation from the London Drugs Commission report?

• Reference: 2025/3964
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 November 2025

The long-awaited Precision Stop & Search Pilot Proof of concept evaluation report from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) was published on 1 October 2025. Recommendation 18 in March 2025 report from the London Drugs Commission, The Cannabis Conundrum: A Way Forward For London, recommends that the MPS in partnership with MOPAC should ensure evaluation of the precision stop and search pilot includes recording of things such as type of drug found and the number of drug-related stop and searches that end in no further action as well as positive outcomes. Could you tell me why this doesn’t seem to have...