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• Reference: 2014/5269
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Please update the Assembly on the progress made by your Deputy Mayor for Housing and Land in his discussions with Westbrook Partners.

• Reference: 2014/5270
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

What are you doing to ensure there are sufficient housing options, particularly in the private rented sector, available to people who are leaving hostel services in London?

• Reference: 2014/5513
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

At the Plenary in July discussing culture I asked Munira Mirza about progress towards delivering a capital fund for small theatres, which I was told would probably be launched in the Autumn with the Theatres Trust. Could you provide me with an update on the likely launch date for this and provide more details about the scope of the fund?

• Reference: 2014/5514
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Are there figures about how much lost property was reported in Black Cabs, and if so can you provide a breakdown for the last five years?

• Reference: 2014/5515
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Can the process around lost property be reviewed so TfL can assist Black Cab drivers with recording lost property and helping them locate the owner of any lost property?

• Reference: 2014/5516
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

At the Plenary on 5th March 2014 I raised the plight of residents in properties owned by MOPAC and managed by Crown Simmonds housing association which MOPAC was planning to sell off as part of its 2013-16 Estates Strategy. At the time you were unaware of their case, and when you responded to a letter I sent you in April you said 'It is my understanding that tenants were informed from the outset these leases were time limited and that this was not a long term arrangement'. We were told via a press release ("Deputy Mayor intervenes to keep residents...

• Reference: 2014/5524
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Would you agree that your Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime Stephen Greenhalgh intervening to overturn a decision he signed off, and then sending out a press release congratulating himself and other Conservative Councillors and a Parliamentary Candidate for 'saving residents from evictions' is playing politics with people's homes?

• Reference: 2014/5525
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

A recent press article referring to the planned sell off of the MOPAC's residential portfolio, said that MOPAC's housing arm 'was wrongly told all the tenants in blocks across the capital were on short-term leases despite many having lived there for over 50 years'. Why was there this confusion in MOPAC, when did they become aware of this error, and why has it taken so long for this to come to light while residents have faced months of uncertainty and the threat of eviction?

• Reference: 2014/5526
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

While I welcome the decision to not sell Raynesfield in Raynes Park, what will happen to those residents who had already vacated their properties as they had been served eviction notices, and can you offer reassurance that both these and the residents who stayed at Raynesfield will now be offered long term tenancies to clarify their status?

• Reference: 2014/5527
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

While I welcome the decision to not sell Raynesfield in Raynes Park and Auriol Road, Hammersmith what position does this leave the residents in Griffiths Road who have already vacated their properties?