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• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 01 July 2021

Siân Berry AM: My questions are to the Deputy Mayor for Housing and Residential Development. I have two issues to raise with you about the more ground‑up activities under your remit. First of all, the London Housing Panel was set up in 2019 to provide London’s voluntary and community sector organisations with a structured forum to consider housing issues and engage in dialogue with the Mayor, the Assembly and other decision makers. You have said now, just two years later, that it will have its funding removed next March [2022]. I want to ask today whether you would reconsider this...

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 01 July 2021

Tony Devenish AM: Good morning, Deputy Mayor Copley. On what date will you have finished all 116,000 affordable homes that you were meant to have started five years ago?

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 01 July 2021

Léonie Cooper AM: My question is for Deputy Mayor Tom Copley. Maybe we should have a little reset in terms of levels of politeness. The 2016 Affordable Housing Programme will build 116,000 affordable homes for £4.82 billion while the 2021 Affordable Housing Programme will build 82,000 for £4 billion. I just heard you mention rising building costs and so I am sure that is one of the reasons, but why does it cost just under £49,000 to fund an affordable home today when it cost £41,500 in 2016? What has changed?

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 01 July 2021

Shaun Bailey AM: Good morning, Deputy Mayor. It is nice to see you again. I just want to ask you a few very simple questions. How many GLA‑funded affordable homes do you intend to build each year?

• Question by: Anne Clarke
• Meeting date: 01 July 2021

Anne Clarke AM: My first question is to Deputy Mayor Copley. How can Londoners be better served by the current system of temporary accommodation?

• Question by: Elly Baker
• Meeting date: 01 July 2021

Elly Baker AM: My question is to Deputy Mayor Tom Copley. Returning to the subject of the City Hall developer, I do appreciate that you have said it is the very early stages of planning, but it would be really good for us to hear what you think the creation of a City Hall developer could achieve.

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 01 July 2021

Emma Best AM: I am just going to circle back to overcrowding which, in part, we know is due to the lack of family housing of all tenure. My question is for Deputy Mayor Tom Copley and just quite simply a “Yes” or “No”, I would appreciate. Do you think that we need a family housing target in the London Housing Strategy?

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 01 July 2021

Siân Berry AM: Coming back to the discussion you had with Assembly Member Bailey on the 2021 to 2026 housing grants and the allocations and profiles for it, you kept saying it was coming in the autumn and I think we know that in the public sector autumn runs from September to the end of December. Will it be closer to September [2021] or December [2021] when we get that profile, presumably in time for the budgets?

• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 01 July 2021

Keith Prince AM (Deputy Chairman): Good afternoon, Deputy Mayor. Thank you very much for coming down and visiting the SHC [Partnership] unit at Westminster Abbey yesterday. I am sorry I could not be there. I was at a Transport Committee meeting. You visited the unit, you went into it and you will probably tell me what you felt about it. One of the issues we had is because it is designed to fit on the back of a low loader without a police escort, it does fall just shy of the Mayor’s space standards. This does not seem to be...