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• Reference: 2019/17577
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

How many Boroughs have signed up to the Right to Buy receipts Ring Fence offer, and how much money has been returned to each borough to date?

• Reference: 2019/17578
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

How much Right to Buy receipts have been returned to the GLA from the Government in each year since 2012?

• Reference: 2019/17579
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

How much funding has the GLA awarded to each London Borough for new homes at social rent or London Affordable Rent in each of the last five years?

• Reference: 2019/17580
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

Your press release for the 2018-19 affordable homes statistics stated that there had been 1,916 new council homes started in 2018-19 funded by the GLA. Could you: break this down by London Borough provide this figure for each of the past five years

• Reference: 2019/17581
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

Following on from my question 2019/14468, according to MHCLG Live Table 1011, the GLA funded 290 Affordable Housing Acquisition and Rehab starts in 2017/18, and 204 completions. Can you confirm: That these are not included in the GLA Affordable Housing Statistics published quarterly How much funding was given by the GLA towards these? If the answer to b) is the same as your answer to 2019/14468, that you do not track the data, can you explain why this is?

• Reference: 2019/17582
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

Policy D5 in your new draft London Plan states that 10% of all new homes built in London should be “wheelchair user dwellings”. What proportion of new homes built in the London in each of the past five years have been wheelchair user dwellings, broken down by London Borough if possible?

• Reference: 2019/17583
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

Of “wheelchair user dwellings” and other new accessible housing funded by the GLA, what proportion is Specialist Older Persons’ Accommodation? What steps are you taking to make sure there are more “wheelchair user dwellings” and other accessible housing available for those of all ages who need it?

• Reference: 2019/17584
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

One of the hinderances to the use of Commonhold tenure is an unwillingness of lenders and others involved in the housebuilding sector to introduce it. Using your funding power and strategic partnerships with housing associations – who build many private sale homes – could you support a commonhold pilot programme in London that would engage lenders and other professionals to demonstrate that the tenure can work successfully?

• Reference: 2019/17585
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

Given that London has a much higher proportion of people living in flats and new builds than the rest of the country, did the GLA respond to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s recent consultation, “Implementing reforms to the leasehold system in England”, and if so could you share a copy of your response?

• Reference: 2019/17586
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

The Government has recently stated that it will legislate to ensure all new ground rents are £0, which is a good step to supporting leaseholders, but do you think their proposals go far enough to help existing leaseholders stuck with onerous and pernicious terms?