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• Reference: 2017/5309
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 21 December 2017

How are the police supporting the Mayor's new campaign to help young Londoners decide not to carry a knife?

• Reference: 2017/4960
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 14 December 2017

How will your draft Housing Strategy and London Plan help to recognise and tackle the issue of hidden homelessness in London?

• Reference: 2017/4992
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 14 December 2017

The Homes and Communities Agency is now giving grants for shared ownership to unregistered bodies, such as community-led housing organisations. Have you considered providing grants for this and other non-rental products like resale price covenants?

• Reference: 2017/4993
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 14 December 2017

I am pleased to see more flexibility in grants being given to registered providers in your new housing programme. At the Assembly Housing Committee on 8 November 2017, it was suggested that this flexibility may be extended to organisations who are not registered providers, as long as grants are not made conditional on the provision of sub-market rental homes. Does this mean that grants without conditions might be made available to organisations whose constituted aims are to provide more affordable homes, such as many community-led housing organisations?

• Reference: 2017/4994
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 14 December 2017

At the national Community-Led Housing Conference on 27 November 2017, Housing Minister Alok Sharma confirmed the Government's commitment to spend £60 million on community-led housing nationally per year. Have you, or are you planning to speak to the Minister about how that fund can be best used in London?

• Reference: 2017/4995
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 14 December 2017

Your draft Housing Strategy reiterates your manifesto pledge to create a 'London Charter' to standardise approaches to leasehold service charges. When will this charter be completed and published?

• Reference: 2017/4996
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 14 December 2017

Thank you for your response to my question 2017/4343. Disappointingly, there isn't much detail of the 'first dibs' policy in the housing section of the draft London Plan. However, you do mention (in paragraph 4.1.6) that you will be discussing measures to ensure more new homes are available first to Londoners with major housebuilders. How will you include Londoners in need of affordable housing in your discussions about these proposals?

• Reference: 2017/4997
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 14 December 2017

Thank you for your responses to my questions 2017/4307 and 2017/3971. Will you set out an action plan alongside the Fifty Thousand Homes campaign to engage with more employers to promote tenancy deposit loans to Londoners? In particular, what will you do to support sectors that find it more difficult to implement these schemes in London?

• Reference: 2017/4998
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 14 December 2017

Thank you for your responses to my questions 2017/2099 and 2017/3614. Without representation on the board of Homes for Londoners, how will you regularly engage with private renters and social housing tenants to ensure their interests are represented in City Hall?

• Reference: 2017/4999
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 14 December 2017

Thank you for your response to my question 2016/4145. In your draft London Plan (section 4.17.7) affordable student rent is defined as "a rental cost for the academic year equal to or below 55 per cent of the maximum income that a new full-time student studying in London and living away from home could receive from the Government's maintenance loan for living costs for that academic year." Why is this proportion of income so much higher than the definition of London Living Rent, which is "based on a third of average local household incomes"?