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• Reference: 2019/20961
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

It is great that the new Public London Charter will be embedded in your new London Plan. Could you update us on how it is being drawn up and when we can expect it to be published?

• Reference: 2019/21009
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

How are you engaging with young Londoners to ensure that their voices are heard when it comes to formulating policy?

• Reference: 2019/20962
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

The latest London Plan Annual Monitoring Report finds that “Bexley, Bromley, the City of London and Kingston upon Thames recorded no completions of affordable homes with three bedrooms or more” in 2017/18, with other boroughs also recording very low levels of family sized affordable housing. How will you make sure boroughs increase the delivery of family sized affordable homes across London, which is much needed?

• Reference: 2019/20963
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

From table 3.31 of the latest London Plan Annual Monitoring Report, could you provide the number of new conventional homes in the pipeline in each borough and tenure that are “family-sized”, i.e. have three or more bedrooms?

• Reference: 2019/20964
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

Can you provide a list of all planning applications which have been approved in the past five years which have included development on Green Belt or Metropolitan Open Land?

• Reference: 2019/20965
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

What progress have you made lobbying the Government to implement the reforms proposed in the GLA’s “Capital Gains” report, in particular the introduction of “Land Assembly Zones”? Will you work with the new Government to ensure the necessary legislative changes are enacted?

• Reference: 2019/21010
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

One of the Mayor’s strategic priorities is tackling child health inequalities and good nutrition is central to reducing such inequalities. Does the Mayor therefore agree that as schools are hubs in all communities and central in providing food to children, universal free school means for all children should be a pan-London strategic priority and if so, what are you doing to enable this to happen?

• Reference: 2019/21011
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

Trussell Trust data shows that 88,379 emergency food parcels were provided in London between April to September 2019 ( https://www.trusselltrust.org/news-and-blog/latest-stats/mid-year-stats/ ). This suggests the year on year increase in food parcel provision since 2012/13 will continue in 2019. Do you agree that an increasing reliance on food parcels marks a failure of government policy?

• Reference: 2019/21012
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

Research by the Trussell Trust shows that the primary reason for referral to a food bank in April to September 2019 was low income ( https://www.trusselltrust.org/news-and-blog/latest-stats/mid-year-stats/ ). How important is it that we tackle poverty as the root cause of food insecurity in London?

• Reference: 2019/21013
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

Please can you provide an update on the progress made against your ambition to measure household food insecurity set out in your London Food Strategy.