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• Reference: 2018/0231
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 18 January 2018

How will the Mayor's 'No one needs to sleep rough in London' campaign and new London Homeless Charities Group contribute to reducing homelessness in the capital?

• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 07 September 2017

Tom Copley AM: Thank you very much, Chair. I wanted to ask you about the levels of affordable housing and specifically the London Affordable [Living] Rent which is the Mayor’s new form of tenure that is going to be benchmarked at social rent levels. Are you going to have a target specifically for London Affordable Rent across the OPDC site?

• Reference: 2015/2220
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 15 July 2015

Given the Government's proposals to force London's local authorities to sell high value assets, do you think the revenue generated should be hypothecated for building homes in the capital?

• Reference: 2015/0112
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 21 January 2015

In your Housing Strategy you outline that you "would like to see new arrangements for prudential borrowing for new housing so that it is not counted as Government debt, which would distinguish it from more mainstream public borrowing, along the lines that apply in much of the rest of Europe". What progress have you made in lobbying the government to implement this change?

• Reference: 2012/0068-2
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 20 December 2012

Does the Metropolitan Police Service actually accept in broad principle the findings of the Leveson Inquiry?

• Reference: 2012/0071-2
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 20 December 2012

Yes, we have just got a few questions about Operation Condor, and I think my colleague, Andrew, has some questions about this as well. Deputy Commissioner, you recently carried out the operation in my corner of town in Havering and Redbridge, I think you arrested one person in Havering and nobody in Redbridge. How do you judge the impact of a large-scale operation like that against the resource costs?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 20 December 2012

Tony Arbour (AM): Do you have any views on that, Stephen?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 20 December 2012

Obviously because the time has slipped for getting bids in to you by the end of February but the schemes are going to be starting in April, the new financial year, it does not give them very much leeway. Will you be giving them some extra leeway in how they can deliver those schemes?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 20 December 2012

This is an incredibly difficult area because in fact you do not want to stop whistle-blowers. You do not want to stop the police officers who are reporting on illegal activities within the Metropolitan Police Service. You want them to come forward. At the same time, you do not want false allegations leaked. In the past, the Metropolitan Police Service has had incidents where that has happened and officers do not seem to have been published. We have the de Menezes stuff and we have the Tomlinson stuff. Metropolitan Police Service officers have got away with false allegations or false...

• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 20 December 2012

I am going to move on to a few questions about community safety funding, if I may, and I wanted to ask the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime. Obviously we have seen some of the criteria that have come through in the letter that has been sent out from you and London Councils to councils. The first question was how MOPAC selected the criteria under which the decisions on allocating community safety funding were selected and what consultation if any you made in determining the criteria with relevant stakeholders who were applying for funding.