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• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Just going back to this question of different kinds of housing, what place will housing co-operatives, tenant management organisations and Black and Minority Ethnic Registered Social Landlords have in the Mayor's overall strategy?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Actually I want to come in on exactly this point but before I do, can I say, since there has been some hostile questioning, if I can put it that way, from other parts of the Chamber, that in relation to the additional powers to the Mayor we, from our side, have supported this. We are very pleased to see renewed or additional vigour on this subject. It is the number one issue of concern to Londoners in the polls, certainly the ones I have seen. On this question of the Capital Moves, can you just be clear. You have...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

OK. So the two things they are asking for are, firstly that there should be specific reference, so that point we are clear on. The second thing they are saying is that the Mayor should remove the target for 25% re-lets by 2012 from his draft Housing Strategy. As I understand it, their concern is that if they do not, as it were, get enough for their people they will not have the incentive to bring forward schemes and so forth. I have to say I am in two minds about that because I am politically old enough to remember...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Neale, it was clarity we were looking for. Alan Benson, Head of Housing, met with Members - certainly of my Group - and we welcome that and we feel that we fed in and we can see, in the Strategy, issues of concern to us that have been addressed, but what we wanted to get was what difference this is going to make so that the current situation is not going to really improve; the Mayor does not have a power to actually deal with this issue.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

What actions are you taking in terms of this serious concern that the councils have raised?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

I do not know that that answers the question because, from what you have said, it does not appear that he does have any powers to use directly in relation to this issue about boroughs who do not take up their grant, because you were saying that you would then wait to use the planning powers.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

The last question: it is about Capital Moves. Is it right that all boroughs have signed up to Capital Moves?

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Is the Mayor setting up or being part of a new migrant databank to gather these statistics and put them in a database?

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Do you know about people who have actually come from the accession states to other parts of the UK - for instance, Norfolk or wherever - and then have filtered back to London?

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Right, so, there is no actual information.