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  • Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm (3)

    • Reference: 2020/4069
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 19 November 2020
    Given the Government’s plans to give the Secretary of State for Housing the final say on planning applications relating to statues, due to their national significance, does the Mayor recognise that public statues in the capital have a national significance and agree that their future is not entirely a matter for local/devolved government?

  • Rough Sleepers

    • Reference: 2020/0140
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 16 January 2020
    To ask the Mayor, what percentage of rough sleepers in London are not UK nationals?

  • The World Economic Forum

    • Reference: 2017/1711
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 22 March 2017
    Did you have a good time rubbing shoulders with the movers and shakers of the global elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January?

  • Affordable housing

    • Reference: 2017/0324
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 18 January 2017
    Does the Mayor agree that affordable housing can often simply stoke up the housing bubble by introducing artificial demand at an artificially low price?

  • Self-build homes

    • Reference: 2017/0326
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 18 January 2017
    The UK trails Europe in the percentage of homes self-built. Can the Mayor commit to a self-build target on TFL land and so set an example for the rest of the country?

  • Merger of housing associations

    • Reference: 2017/0341
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 18 January 2017
    What is your position on the merger of Affinity Sutton and Circle Housing Group into a new 128,000-home housing association named Clarion Group, which it transpires, does not recognise the role of trade unions in the workplace?

  • Probation Services

    • Reference: 2017/0344
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 18 January 2017
    What progress have you made in persuading the Ministry of Justice to devolve the operation of London's failing, privatised probation services, following the damning joint report by HM Inspectorate of Probation and HM Inspectorate of Prisons, published on 4 October 2016?

  • London's 'Pocket Parks'

    • Reference: 2016/4756
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 14 December 2016
    What steps are you taking to protect London's 'pocket parks' such as Old Farm Park in Sidcup from being offloaded by local authorities to developers, to replace them with blocks of flats?

  • Historic London sightlines

    • Reference: 2016/4772
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 14 December 2016
    St Paul's Cathedral is an iconic image that is recognised around the world, yet the 42-storey Manhattan Loft Gardens tower in Stratford will mar a centuries-old view of St Paul's. Will the mayor halt construction of this tower, before the iconic view of St Paul's is lost forever? http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/st-pauls-cathedral-in-row-with-de…

  • Housing development on Barking & Dagenham College green belt land (1)

    • Reference: 2016/1929
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 22 June 2016
    Barking & Dagenham College has requested planning permission to build 125 homes on green belt land immediately next to the Eastbrookend Country Park and local councillors have said that the matter is still resting with the London Mayor's office. Could the Mayor confirm that his office will turn down this application and stand by his election promise to protect the green belt?