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• Reference: 2019/20727
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

How soon can we get the Government to finish abolishing section 21?

• Reference: 2019/20747
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

Thank you for your answer to my question 2019/20143. As of 4 December 2019 only seven properties are available to rent through the portal, and five of these are at discount market rent (i.e. 80 per cent of market rent) a definition of ‘affordable’ that you said you had ‘ditched’. How many homes have been offered to rent through your Homes for Londoners online property portal at (a) discount market rent (b) London Living Rent and (c) London affordable rent, since its launch?

• Reference: 2019/20748
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

The first two recommendations of the Harris report into London’s preparedness to respond to a major terrorist incident are about the three main ‘blue light’ emergency services workers living outside of London, and the need to have them housed in London. What work has your office done to offer affordable, specific housing for key workers in London’s police force?

• Reference: 2019/20140
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

Thank you for your answer to my question 2016/1585. Does your methodology for calculating your London Living Rent still not take into account that women may not be able to afford rents based on average wages, since the median gender pay gap in London, according to the latest data in 2018 (https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/gender-pay-gaps), is 17 per cent?

• Reference: 2019/20141
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

The Planning Inspectorate’s Report of the Examination in Public of the London Plan 2019 advises you to: “reduce the ten year small site housing targets for boroughs to give a total of 119,250 dwellings (rather than 245,730) and as a consequence reduce the overall housing targets for boroughs to give a total of 522,850 dwellings (rather than 649,350).” Which boroughs have so far identified enough small sites to meet either the requirements of your new London Plan or the reduced targets?

• Reference: 2019/20142
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

How are you monitoring borough councils making small sites available for small developers, housing associations, and communities?

• Reference: 2019/20143
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

On 21 June 2018, you launched a new portal to help Londoners find an affordable home, in place of the London Lettings Agency you promised in your manifesto. At Mayor’s Question Time on 22 March 2018, you said that this portal would promote: “affordable homes for Londoners to rent and buy.” This portal (as of 31 October 2019) offers more than 900 homes to buy, but only one home for rent. This single home to rent is available at discount market rent (i.e. 80 per cent of market rent) and this is a definition of ‘affordable’ that you said you...

• Reference: 2019/20144
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

The GLA website provides a table showing GLA Housing Starts on Site and Completions for each of your housing grant programmes (https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/housing-and-land/increasing-housin…). However, this table does not differentiate between homes offered at London Living Rent and those offered for Shared Ownership. Could this data be split in future, and could you now provide a version of this table to me that shows which of the starts and completions detailed in each year are homes for shared ownership?

• Reference: 2019/19655
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 17 October 2019

How many definitions of ‘affordable’ homes are used by your office?

• Reference: 2019/19689
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 17 October 2019

In your answer to my question 2019/12028, you told me you had: "asked TfL to investigate how the empty properties at Earls Court could be brought into [meanwhile] use if there is any further delay in the start of large-scale development." Could you update me about the outcome or progress of this investigation from Transport for London (TfL)?