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• Reference: 2024/1624
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 23 May 2024

In 2023, the Night Czar attended just one out of five meetings of your Cultural Leadership Board, despite being a Board Member. Do you think it is important for your Night Czar to prioritise working more closely with experts across the sector to address the issues facing London’s cultural venues, particularly its night-time venues?

• Reference: 2024/1633
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 23 May 2024

Could you provide me with a complete list of the 2024 Pride in London sponsors?

• Reference: 2024/1195
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

How will your January 2024 report, Properties vulnerable to heat impacts in London: Prioritisation for adaptation interventions, commissioned by the GLA from Arup, inform your initiatives to: a) increase the green coverage of London, and b) retrofit homes and public buildings?

• Reference: 2024/0385
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

The Government has decided not to mandate that all newly let properties must have an EPC rating of C or higher by 2025. What assessment have you made of the impact this decision will have on Londoners in the private rented sector, and how have you been lobbying Government to reverse this decision?

• Reference: 2023/4803
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

In May this year, you and the leader of Westminster Council called on the Government to: a) devolve more powers to set higher rates of council tax on empty homes, and b) make it easier for councils to take over empty homes using Empty Dwelling Management Orders. How many meetings have you had with Government officials since May where you have lobbied for these powers, and on what dates did they take place? Please provide information broken down by a) and b).

• Reference: 2023/4804
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

In February 2022, you called on Government to: a) raise capital gains tax (CGT) on overseas buyers from 28 per cent to 40 per cent, b) remove CGT relief, and c) increase the Annual Tax on Enveloped Dwellings for overseas companies. How many meetings have you had with Government officials in the last twelve months where you have lobbied for these powers, and on what dates did they take place? Please provide information broken down by a), b) and c).

• Reference: 2023/4805
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

In August 2022, the Government introduced a Register of Overseas Entities, following lobbying from yourself and others. What assessment have you made of: a) how well this register is operating, b) what tangible benefits it has brought for Londoners, and c) what you would like to see from the Government to mitigate issues and close loopholes?

• Reference: 2023/3950
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 12 October 2023

Given your support for the arts and social change in London, will you express your solidarity with striking workers at the Royal Society of Arts, who are taking industrial action for the first time in the organisation’s 270-year history?

• Reference: 2023/3952
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 12 October 2023

My recent report, London’s ‘Retrofit Revolution’: What’s going wrong?, highlights London councils’ poor delivery of home upgrades via the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF). How do you plan to work with councils to ensure this does not happen again in the next round of the SHDF, given £131.5 million will be made available to London?

• Reference: 2023/3953
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 12 October 2023

You won £12 million from the Government for Phase 4 of the Warmer Homes programme, a significant drop-off from the £40 million for the previous phase. What assessments have you made of: a) why this huge drop-off in funding occurred, and b) the impacts a smaller Warmer Homes scheme will have on London?