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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?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Do you expect those strands to be fully funded as originally envisaged or will there have to be some cutbacks?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Yes, Chair. I am impressed the Mayor has created another functional body: Bacon for London! I have three areas of questioning - very briefly. The first is you are trying to clutch some sort of victory out of the jaws of defeat, I would suggest. The Government effectively abolished both the budgets and the entities of the Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) last year, while accepting that City Hall is going to have some economic regeneration capacity. I pay tribute to you personally because I know you have been scrambling in the background to try to persuade it that it made...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

You mentioned the youth priorities would be one of the things the Mayor could inform us about next week. This afternoon some Members of this Assembly are meeting to update ourselves on the Time for Action strands. We do know from the information we have to date that a lot of those programmes have been put on hold because of the concern about funding --

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Yes, Chair. I am impressed the Mayor has created another functional body: Bacon for London! I have three areas of questioning - very briefly. The first is you are trying to clutch some sort of victory out of the jaws of defeat, I would suggest. The Government effectively abolished both the budgets and the entities of the Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) last year, while accepting that City Hall is going to have some economic regeneration capacity. I pay tribute to you personally because I know you have been scrambling in the background to try to persuade it that it made...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Thank you, Chair. Cruel fate has dictated that I lead on this as well! I am very grateful for your opening comments. Can you tell us what progress you have made in your discussions with the boroughs in particular on how they might be affected, particularly on the planning powers?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

The Mayoral Development Corporation will presumably have to be in conformity with the London Plan?