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• Reference: 2023/4441
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 07 December 2023

How much of the funding from the current Affordable Homes Programme 2021-26 (AHP21-26) is being allocated towards the Mayor’s new Council Homes Acquisition Programme (CHAP) and the goal of purchasing at least 10,000 extra council homes over the next ten years, as announced in his press release on 17 November 2023?

• Reference: 2023/4442
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 07 December 2023

Could you provide an estimate of the number of additional council homes to be purchased in each year of the Mayor's new ten-year Council Homes Acquisition Programme (CHAP), as announced in his press release on 17 November 2023?

• Reference: 2023/4443
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 07 December 2023

What additional funding is the Mayor seeking from Government to support the new ten-year Council Homes Acquisition Programme (CHAP), as announced in his press release on 17 November 2023? Please provide copies of any correspondence and supporting documents that you or the Mayor have exchanged with Government departments on this issue to date.

• Reference: 2023/4444
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 07 December 2023

What analysis of the costs and wider benefits ratio will you or the Mayor be carrying out to assess his new Council Homes Acquisition Programme (CHAP)?

• Reference: 2023/4445
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 07 December 2023

When will the Mayor be publishing the update to the Affordable Housing and Viability London Plan guidance that covers giving key workers access to intermediate affordable housing, which he anticipated would be published for consultation in Spring 2023?

• Reference: 2023/4446
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 07 December 2023

In the letter from Tajmina Jetha, Head of Programme Management, Housing and Land, to the Chair of the London Assembly Budget and Performance Committee, dated 25 October 2023, it said: “A total of 1,105 completed homes were via Right to Buy Back projects, 108 completions in 2021-22 and 938 completed homes in 2022-23 and 59 in Q1 of 2023-24.” Were all these funded from the Affordable Homes Programme 2016-23 and, if so, what was the total funding from this programme? If not, how many were funded from the Affordable Homes Programme 2021-26 and what was the total funding from this...

• Reference: 2023/4447
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 07 December 2023

In the letter from Tajmina Jetha, Head of Programme Management, Housing and Land, to the Chair of the London Assembly Budget and Performance Committee, dated 25 October 2023, it said: “the GLA is estimating that £173.5m of the funding approved for projects in the Affordable Housing Programme 2021-26 will be applied to homes replacing obsolete units.” What percentage of the total funding in the Affordable Homes Programme 2021-26 is this £173.5 million?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 14 March 2007

I would like to say right up front I am not trying to score any points here, I would just like some progress. I am well aware that my name is on this list of people who have flown on behalf of the Mayor. What weight is given in the planning for whether or not to take trains rather than planes? It is clear that, for example, two people at least have gone to MIPIM [international property event] in Cannes this week, and the LDA automatically booked a flight because apparently you have to book a long way ahead. So...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 14 March 2007

I have one more question if you do not mind. I suppose what I would like to see is some really positive and clear climate change advantage from each trip; if you are going to fly, then get some real advantage from it. That is the sort of offsetting that I could accept. Are you concerned at the fact that flights by GLA people have increased more than threefold since 2001, because this does not fit with the Climate Change Action Plan? Are you going to reconsider this policy?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 14 March 2007

I do understand the rationale for what you are doing. However, if you have this cheaper oil it takes the pressure off in a way from looking for other alternatives, whether it is LPG or bio fuels, and this could actually slow down real progress on climate change adaptation.