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• Reference: 2016/0678
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 02 March 2016

How can the public be assured that the LLDC has achieved value for money given the level of public investment in its operations and investments to date?

• Reference: 2016/0580
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 22 February 2016

What confidence can Londoners have in the government's commitment to provide a two-for-one replacement of the council homes sold in London and used to fund the extension of the Right to Buy to housing association tenants, particularly given the existing poor record on replacing social housing stock using Right to Buy receipts?

• Reference: 2016/0581
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 22 February 2016

What is your latest assessment of the impact of the Housing and Planning Bill on London's social rented housing stock, following the government's announcement that housing associations will be able to replace rented homes with other tenures such as shared ownership as and when they are sold through the extension of the Right to Buy scheme?

• Reference: 2016/0582
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 22 February 2016

Responding to my question at Mayor's Question Time in May 2015, you stated that "'it would be the height of insanity to use the proceeds of council home sales in London to help build more homes outside and away from London because it is in London where we have a housing crisis." Do you stand by this comment, and if so, will you now campaign against the government's Housing and Planning Bill in your capacity as Mayor of London?

• Reference: 2016/0583
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 22 February 2016

Further to the findings of the House of Commons Communities and Local Government Select Committee inquiry into housing associations and the Right to Buy, do you accept that the government's imposition of a 1 per cent rent cut for four years will lead to a significant reduction in housing associations' income , damaging their ability to build new homes in London?

• Reference: 2016/0584
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 22 February 2016

Do you recognise that large numbers of homes in London sold through the existing statutory right to buy for council tenants have become private sector rental properties? Do you share the concern expressed by the House of Commons Communities and Local Government Select Committee that the potential for selling social housing assets at a discount, only for them to become both more expensive and possibly lower quality housing in the private rented sector, is a significant concern?

• Reference: 2016/0585
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 22 February 2016

Given the GLA is now forecasting only 5,172 affordable housing completions in 2015/16, do you regret delivering the lowest number of affordable homes built in London in a single year since Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) reporting began in the early 1990s?

• Reference: 2016/0586
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 22 February 2016

Further to the paper discussed by your Housing Investment Group on 9 December 2015, can you confirm that your target to part-fund the delivery of 42,000 affordable homes over the 2015-18 period is now unlikely to be met?

• Reference: 2016/0587
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 22 February 2016

Can you confirm the average rent per week (£) for: i) 'discounted rents'; and ii) 'capped rents' on the allocations made through your current housing programme? Please also list these figures as a percentage of market rent.

• Reference: 2016/0588
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 22 February 2016

Of the 39,000 new homes you promised to build on surplus GLA-owned land back in 2008 (Boris Johnson, housing manifesto), how many have you delivered?