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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: 2019/20727
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

How soon can we get the Government to finish abolishing section 21?

• 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: 2019/20747
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

Thank you for your answer to my question 2019/20143. As of 4 December 2019 only seven properties are available to rent through the portal, and five of these are at discount market rent (i.e. 80 per cent of market rent) a definition of ‘affordable’ that you said you had ‘ditched’. How many homes have been offered to rent through your Homes for Londoners online property portal at (a) discount market rent (b) London Living Rent and (c) London affordable rent, since its launch?

• Reference: 2019/20748
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

The first two recommendations of the Harris report into London’s preparedness to respond to a major terrorist incident are about the three main ‘blue light’ emergency services workers living outside of London, and the need to have them housed in London. What work has your office done to offer affordable, specific housing for key workers in London’s police force?

• Reference: 2019/20749
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

In your answer to my question 2018/2546, on the deaths and serious incidents in police custody report, you told me that you accepted the recommendation to “end use of police custody for children detained under section 136 Mental Health Act”. Can you confirm that no children have been detained in police custody in London under the Mental Health Act since October 2018?

• Reference: 2019/20750
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

Under what circumstances do the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) use ramming tactics?