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• Reference: 2014/5102
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Given your responsibilities in relation to housing in London, do you agree that there is a need to bring forward reforms to Section 21 of the Housing Act (1988) in order to remove a landlord's right to 'no fault' eviction, ensuring tenants do not live in fear of being evicted by their landlord if they complain about a problem with their home?

• Reference: 2014/5103
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

What steps are you taking to ensure that minimum energy efficiency standards are achieved in London in the private rented sector by 2018, in accordance with the Energy Act (2011).

• Reference: 2014/5104
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

What, if anything, do you believe should be done to curb the high rate of inflation in London's housing market?

• Reference: 2014/5105
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

How do you respond to the UK Government's announcement that national planning policy will be changed to exempt developments of 10 homes or fewer, with less than 1,000 square metres of floorspace, from planning obligations imposing contributions towards affordable housing? Please outline the impact you expect this decision to have on the provision of affordable homes across London?

• Reference: 2014/5106
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

In what sense is your London Housing Bank different to any other investment programme?

• Reference: 2014/5107
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

What steps are you taking to ensure that the sale of land and property owned by the Greater London Authority (GLA) and its functional bodies does not conflict with wider Mayoral priorities, including your objective to increase the number of affordable homes across London?

• Reference: 2014/5132
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Given that you say you are "open to proposals for additional council tax bands for more valuable properties, which would tend to reduce demand at the top of the market" (MQ214/4266), why have you been so outspoken against similar proposals that have been dubbed a 'mansion tax'?

• Reference: 2014/4264
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 November 2014

What has been the impact on Londoners of the recent high rate of inflation in the London housing market?

• Reference: 2014/4265
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 November 2014

In terms of the recent high rates of inflation in London's housing market, what do you believe to have been the relative importance of (a) new supply not matching population growth, and (b) growing demand from investors increasingly seeing London homes as a profitable asset class?

• Reference: 2014/4266
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 November 2014

What demand-side measures would you support to curb the high rate of inflation in London's housing market?