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• Reference: 2013/4698
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 18 December 2013

Will you consider extending the conservation area in Hackney Wick as a way of protecting, nurturing and developing the existing character of the area, as has been done at Creekside in Deptford?

• Reference: 2013/4701
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 18 December 2013

I have heard reports that police are dismissing sex workers after they experience attacks and try to report the offence. Will you take a stand and also recommend to the Commissioner that crimes against sex workers are treated as hate crimes, or an equivalent escalated crime type, to ensure no officers treat sex workers in this way, putting them at heightened risk?

• Reference: 2013/4702
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 18 December 2013

The recent 'slave house' case in South London revealed how trafficking can be unorganised. Will you be encouraging the MPS Trafficking Unit to recognise the need to proactively seek trafficking that isn't taking place within international criminal networks?

• Reference: 2013/4703
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 18 December 2013

The Police warned Lambeth council about their concerns regarding the 'slave house' 15 years ago. Will you be calling on local authorities to be taking more steps to recognise and act on concerns regarding exploitation?

• Reference: 2013/4704
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 18 December 2013

After the Newham raids in 2011 there was no effective support in place or any follow-up work and women ended up working on the streets in Ilford. Similar large-scale raids took place in Soho on the 4 December 2013. Do you know what processes to support the women, found on brothel raids, are now in place so that these women have not ended up being even more vulnerable?

• Reference: 2013/4705
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 18 December 2013

On 4 December 2013 brothel raids took place which aimed to find vulnerable, at-risk trafficking victims; however the police brought the Evening Standard to the raid and allowed them to publish photos of the women (who tried to hide their faces but could possibly be recognised by their hair and clothes etc). If police are looking for vulnerable trafficking victims, do you think they should avoid creating further stigmatization and risk, and not allow the media to take pictures of them?

• Reference: 2013/4689
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 18 December 2013

Given that 106,000 affordable homes in London are overcrowded, compared with an estimated 43,000 affordable homes that are under occupied, how can we make the best use of the planning system to tackle overcrowding and ensure that new housing supply is best matched to demand?

• Reference: 2013/4690
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 18 December 2013

How will your proposed new Housing Zones and London Housing Bank work?

• Reference: 2013/4691
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 18 December 2013

What will be the benefits to London's private rented sector of your plans to achieve institutional investment in 5,000 new homes as set out in your new draft Housing Strategy?

• Reference: 2013/4692
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 18 December 2013

In Berlin, any fine issued to a cyclist over €45 also results in penalty points of the driving licence of said cyclist. Do you think that such a scheme could help ensure that all road users obey the rules of the road and help dispel some of the tension between cyclists and other road users?