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• Reference: 2018/2881
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 19 October 2018

UNISON's report "Priced out: home ownership and public service workers" demonstrates that purchasing a home is nearly impossible for NHS workers in London. Therefore, these essential workers are reliant on renting. What percentage of income would average and lower quartile rents in each borough take up, for a) a nurse on the Agenda for Change London starting salary of £27,349 and b) a cleaner on the London weighted A4C salary of £21,786?

• Reference: 2018/2277
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 13 September 2018

Media reports indicate that London NHS Trusts are struggling to recruit staff, in part because of high rents and house prices in the city. What steps are you taking to provide more key worker housing with suitable travel to work times for London NHS Trusts?

• Reference: 2018/2278
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 13 September 2018

Can you provide figures for the proportion of NHS staff (on standard agenda for change rates) who would find a) the lower quartile rent and b) the average rent in each London borough unaffordable? Please express this in terms of rent costing more than one third and one half of income.

• Reference: 2018/0915
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 22 March 2018

As you rightly pointed out in the draft Health Inequalities Strategy, 10% of households in London are in fuel poverty, and I applaud your commitment to reduce the impact of fuel poverty on vulnerable Londoners, such as elderly people, through the excellent Mayor's Fuel Poverty Action Plan. The 2017 annual fuel poverty statistics (BEIS, Annual fuel poverty statistics report, 2017 (2015 data), June 2017) show that, since 2013, the proportion of households aged 75 and over in fuel poverty has been increasing, and the Communities and Local Government Committee, in its Second Report of Session 2017-19, Housing for older people...

• Reference: 2018/0916
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 22 March 2018

I notice that the consultation on the Mayor's Fuel Poverty Action Plan concluded in November 2017. Have all responses been analysed and when will the final Plan be published?

• Reference: 2018/0566
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 22 February 2018

Rough sleeping in London has doubled since 2010. I welcome the work the Mayor has done since being elected in 2016 to tackle this problem - but what are the causes, as far as your office can ascertain, for the rise in rough sleeping in the first place?

• Reference: 2018/0283
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 18 January 2018

Since the project is currently at full capacity, are there any plans to expand the project so that it can take on a bigger caseload than 25 women at a time?