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• Reference: 2023/4441
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 07 December 2023

How much of the funding from the current Affordable Homes Programme 2021-26 (AHP21-26) is being allocated towards the Mayor’s new Council Homes Acquisition Programme (CHAP) and the goal of purchasing at least 10,000 extra council homes over the next ten years, as announced in his press release on 17 November 2023?

• Reference: 2023/4442
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 07 December 2023

Could you provide an estimate of the number of additional council homes to be purchased in each year of the Mayor's new ten-year Council Homes Acquisition Programme (CHAP), as announced in his press release on 17 November 2023?

• Reference: 2023/4443
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 07 December 2023

What additional funding is the Mayor seeking from Government to support the new ten-year Council Homes Acquisition Programme (CHAP), as announced in his press release on 17 November 2023? Please provide copies of any correspondence and supporting documents that you or the Mayor have exchanged with Government departments on this issue to date.

• Reference: 2023/4444
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 07 December 2023

What analysis of the costs and wider benefits ratio will you or the Mayor be carrying out to assess his new Council Homes Acquisition Programme (CHAP)?

• Reference: 2023/4445
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 07 December 2023

When will the Mayor be publishing the update to the Affordable Housing and Viability London Plan guidance that covers giving key workers access to intermediate affordable housing, which he anticipated would be published for consultation in Spring 2023?

• Reference: 2023/4446
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 07 December 2023

In the letter from Tajmina Jetha, Head of Programme Management, Housing and Land, to the Chair of the London Assembly Budget and Performance Committee, dated 25 October 2023, it said: “A total of 1,105 completed homes were via Right to Buy Back projects, 108 completions in 2021-22 and 938 completed homes in 2022-23 and 59 in Q1 of 2023-24.” Were all these funded from the Affordable Homes Programme 2016-23 and, if so, what was the total funding from this programme? If not, how many were funded from the Affordable Homes Programme 2021-26 and what was the total funding from this...

• Reference: 2023/4447
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 07 December 2023

In the letter from Tajmina Jetha, Head of Programme Management, Housing and Land, to the Chair of the London Assembly Budget and Performance Committee, dated 25 October 2023, it said: “the GLA is estimating that £173.5m of the funding approved for projects in the Affordable Housing Programme 2021-26 will be applied to homes replacing obsolete units.” What percentage of the total funding in the Affordable Homes Programme 2021-26 is this £173.5 million?

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 07 September 2023

Tony Devenish AM: Thank you. I will start with the Deputy Mayor. Apart from one or two bits of emotional language, I agree with virtually everything that has been said this morning. We clearly have a major issue and we need to do more to resolve it. of course, there could be a change of Government, I hope not, but there could be a change of Government in only 12 or 13 months. We can all set out the problem, it is easy to set out the problems and there has been great work done by people. I would like...

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 07 September 2023

Siân Berry AM: Thank you very much, Chair. My first question is to Hannah Boylan from the GLA Migration Team. Like my colleague, Caroline [Russell AM], I also met with the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, who raised a separate issue about asylum seekers living in Home Office asylum accommodation. The guidance from the Home Office says that category 2 health hazards should be made safe within 24 hours and fixed within five days, but I have heard countless examples of Migrant Help - which Caroline [Russell AM] discussed earlier - failing to respond to complaints and help...

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 06 July 2023

Siân Berry AM: Thank you very much, Chair. Mr Mayor, I want to start with you. I want to talk about the weight of traffic there is coming into London. This really is a burden on Londoners’ shoulders, and it particularly affects outer London near our strategic roads, where there is noise and there is pollution. Obviously there are different things causing that traffic, a couple of facts are I asked outer Londoners and they told me, one in four of them, that they felt forced to. n a car because of the lack of public transport services. But there...