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• Reference: 2014/5022
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

For each of the four projects in London that will receive money from the Estates Regeneration Fund, can you tell me the number of new homes that are expected to be built, broken down by tenure?

• Reference: 2014/5023
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

For each of the four projects in London that will receive money from the Estates Regeneration Fund, can you tell me the number of existing homes that are expected to be demolished, broken down by tenure?

• Reference: 2014/5024
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

For each of the four projects in London that will receive money from the Estates Regeneration Fund, can you tell me the number of existing social rent homes that are expected to be switched to affordable rent?

• Reference: 2014/5025
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Thank you for your answers to questions 2014/4220 and 2014/4221. One of the advantages of the Community Grants Programme was that groups such as Phases and Southwark Habitat for Humanity could bid for funds directly without having to partner with a registered provider, a barrier that effectively prevented them from accessing funds to bring homes back into use and train young unemployed people in previous years. By reverting to that previous arrangement, you risk strangling their growth. Will you reconsider raising this issue with the Government and looking at your own funds from 2015-18 with a view to supporting this...

• Reference: 2014/5026
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Following the actions of two MPs who 'talked out' the Tenancies (Reform) Bill, a private member's bill, will you support amendments to the Deregulation Bill to bring some equivalent protections as a matter of urgency to protect London's private tenants from revenge evictions?

• Reference: 2014/5027
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

You told the press in Kuala Lumpur on the 1st December 2014 that approximately four in ten homes in the Malaysia Square development had been bought by people who don't hold a British passport. Do you have any estimate of the number of buyers, British or otherwise, who are investor-buyers?

• Reference: 2014/4219
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 19 November 2014

Given the failure of the London housing market to keep pace with demand, do you agree that the assumptions in your Further Alterations to the London Plan, have over-estimated the likely number of houses that will be built in East London between now and 2025 by nearly a third? Do you regard it as realistic that the private sector has the capacity to meet these ambitious targets, or is a degree of 'smoothing' required, so that the houses are built on these sites but at a later date?

• Reference: 2014/4220
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 19 November 2014

There is no dedicated funding from the Government for empty homes programmes after 2015. Will you lobby the Government to replicate the successful £100m empty homes fund, including a specific pot of money for community groups?

• Reference: 2014/4221
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 19 November 2014

Will you review whether you can provide a dedicated empty homes fund, including for community groups, within the GLA budget after 2015?

• Reference: 2014/4222
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 19 November 2014

When you launched the first version of the Datastore in 2010, you said its purpose was 'to boost transparency and accountability in the capital', and when you launched the Dashboard in 2012 you said it would 'make City Hall as open and transparent as possible'. In launching the new, much improved, Datastore you said it was 'designed to act as a marketplace for ideas and collaborative efforts'. Can you confirm that you still see transparency and accountability as primary aims for the Datastore?