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• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 04 February 2021

Len Duvall AM: I just want to thank Tom Coffey for the way he answered Councillor [Tony] Devenish [AM] and Shaun Bailey’s [AM] questions. We do have to differentiate between the vulnerable and those that are playing on their fears with fake information, because we know this fake information and this very professionally organised information will cost lives. If people are taken in by misinformation, wrong information, people will die on the back of it. Chair, I hope we can go offline and help and support the Mayor of London and Government in combatting the sinister nature of some of...

• Reference: 2013/0008-1
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 13 March 2013

The 'bedroom tax' will result in an immediate cut in Housing Benefit of 14% for those deemed to have one extra bedroom and 25% for two or more extra bedrooms. However, the extent to which such penalties will make a difference is questionable, as there is a significant mismatch between under-occupying and over-occupying households - with 80,000 households in London under-occupancy, against 260,000 over-crowded households. Will the bedroom tax help address overcrowding in London in any substantive way, and what impact do you believe it will have on established communities and social cohesion in the capital?