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• Reference: 2016/4500
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 07 December 2016

What are you doing to deal with rogue private sector landlords?

• Reference: 2016/4501
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 07 December 2016

What progress is being made with AirBnB to ensure that properties are not let through them for longer than planning requirements permit?

• Reference: 2016/4502
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 07 December 2016

What steps are you taking to deal with estate agents' fees charged to tenants seeking a private sector rental?

• Reference: 2016/4503
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 07 December 2016

What steps are you taking to ensure that Barratts and Family Mosaic housing deal properly and promptly with repairs to lifts and heating and hot water systems amongst other issues and only raise fair service charges for residents in the Stonegrove regeneration, Barnet, partly funded by the GLA ?

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 07 December 2016

Andrew Dismore AM: I wanted to come to the issue of land banking. The previous Mayor stated: “To constrict supply to push up prices by land banking is plainly against the economic interests of this city.” Sadiq [Khan, Mayor of London] said in the manifesto: “Exercise use-it-or-lose-it powers to make sure developers who have planning permission build homes and do not land bank.” There seems to be a degree of consensus about the issue. How do you think the DCLG could support the GLA in tackling land banking? For example, one option would be to allow planning authorities to, if...

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

In light of that, do you accept the findings of the TfL study in 2010 that showed that, for accidents involving cyclists, motorists were responsible for three times as many as were the cyclists themselves, bearing in mind your suggestion at the last Mayor's Question Time that cyclists were largely responsible through road infractions?

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

It has been improved for motorists, there is no doubt it is a lot easier if you are a driver, but I have been there with the cyclists and I can see exactly what the problem is, they have been overlooked, and I would urge you to go back and have a look with me and the cyclists to see that. The key point here is the cyclists have become very concerned about your approach as expressed in your exchanges at the last Mayor's Question Time in May, so will you make it clear, will you apologise to those cyclists...

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

Mr Mayor, I hope that cycling safety is also a cause for concern for you. In light of your exchange with Assembly Member Boff at Mayor's Question Time on 23 May, how many of the 16 cyclists who were killed in London last year would you say died because of their own fault?

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

All right, OK, well I do not think I want to dispute that, but I think if I accepted, and from what you say, that it is part of your responsibility too to make sure that cyclists are kept safe and this blame-the-cyclist routine is something of a smokescreen to divert attention from that responsibility. I will give you a specific example: Henly's Corner. I am sure you are familiar with it because you visited it during the election and with a great fanfare you claimed credit for the remodelling of the junction, but in fact it is a lot...