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• Reference: 2019/14469
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

Following your response to question 2019/12132, could you provide: the size of each site in hectares; whether the GLA has purchased the freehold or leasehold, or whether it is a loan facility to the existing land owner; if leasehold, the name of the freeholder; if loan facility, the loan term length and expected return to the GLA.

• Reference: 2019/14470
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

Do the GLA, StreetLink or any of the charities involved in the “TAP London” project participate in the Home Office’s “Rough Sleeper Support Service” (RSSS) programme, and/or pass on personal information about a rough sleeper to the Home Office or other Government agency without the individual’s consent?

• Reference: 2019/14471
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

Can you confirm that any information given by a member of the public, concerned about the welfare of a rough sleeper in London, through the Streetlink app or website, will be protected by the GDPR and retained only by the relevant local authorities and outreach services, to be used only to assist individual rough sleepers? Please can you provide reassurance to Londoners that their concern and generosity do not unwittingly contribute to what is in my view, the Government’s cruel “Hostile Environment” policy and the deportation of non-UK rough sleepers.

• Reference: 2019/14462
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

How much GLA grant funding was spent on the 1,802, 2,462 and 1,150 “open market” homes in each of the last three years, according to the latest GLA Affordable Housing data returns? Given many of these will be for private sale, does the GLA expect to recoup some of this funding?

• Reference: 2019/14463
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

Following your response to questions 2019/12135 and 2019/12136, if the decision as to whether an intermediate home will be used as London Living Rent or London Shared Ownership is left open to the point of first occupation, and you do not know how many London Living Rent homes are currently being let, how do you know whether or not a home is LLR or Shared Ownership? Without this data, how can you evaluate the effectiveness of LLR as a product?

• Reference: 2019/14460
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

Now the GLA has identified that you need seven times as much annual funding to build the affordable homes we need, and there is in particular a £280,000 “surplus gap” that needs to be plugged for each social rent home, will you impress upon the new Prime Minister the urgent need for this funding, without caveats that it must be used for affordable home ownership?

• Reference: 2019/14461
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

Is allowing commercial and industrial buildings to be converted into 12 square metre flats, without full planning permission, the solution to London’s housing crisis?

• Reference: 2019/12131
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 20 June 2019

Theresa May became Prime Minister promising to fight for those ‘just about managing’ – do you think she delivered on this for Londoners facing a housing crisis? What would you tell the incoming Prime Minister they need to do for housing in London?

• Reference: 2019/12132
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 20 June 2019

How much money has been spent to date and how much is remaining in the Mayor’s Land Fund?

• Reference: 2019/12133
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 20 June 2019

How many sites have been purchased to date with the Mayor’s Land Fund, and how many more sites are being explored?