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• Reference: 2024/1438
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 23 May 2024

You have announced Mayoral work to further support renters in London; can you outline these proposals and timescales for delivery?

• Reference: 2024/1430
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 23 May 2024

What are your planning priorities for the new Mayoral term?

• Reference: 2023/3219
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

Crisis has stated that the homelessness system is at 'breaking point' and most councils in England are facing an increase in homelessness. London accounts for half of all homeless households. London Councils have called on the government to take urgent action to tackle increasing homelessness with 170,000 Londoners now homeless and in temporary Housing. What more does the government need to do to support the GLA and London boroughs, and what more can you do to tackle this issue?

• Reference: 2023/3220
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

What work are you doing to improve the quality of homes in the private rented sector in London?

• Reference: 2023/3221
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

Further to my Question 2023/3034, have you had any response from government to your demands for them to increase the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates so that our most vulnerable residents can afford the homes they so desperately need? Has Michael Gove MP, Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities agreed to a meeting to discuss these concerns?

• Reference: 2023/3034
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 20 July 2023

Does the current level of Local Housing Allowance work for Londoners?

• Reference: 2023/3035
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 20 July 2023

How many new council homes have you started building in Enfield and Haringey?

• Reference: 2023/2585
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 June 2023

In the minutes of the London Drugs Forum meeting on 8 March 2023, it states that: "representatives from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), local authorities, GLA Housing and Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) Housing spoke to partners about the various barriers in terms of housing for those exiting prison and entering into substance misuse treatment." Could you provide more detail on the barriers discussed?

• Reference: 2023/0296
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 19 January 2023

Thank you for your answer to my question 2022/1319 on London Plan Policy S6, which requires that large-scale developments are open to the public and large areas of public realm should provide free, publicly accessible toilets suitable for a range of users. In your response you said: “Data on the loss or gain of public toilets is not monitored in planning applications. My officers will look at how we might monitor information on public toilets for referable schemes in the future.” Could you update me whether this monitoring now takes place and, if so, where it is reported?

• Reference: 2022/5281
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 15 December 2022

Your Warmer Homes programme has been running since 2018 when it was launched with £20 million of Mayoral and Government funding. In December 2021 it was extended with a further £11.1 million and then in May 2022 you announced another £43 million of funding. For the initial £20 million funding could you provide an update on: a) the number of households that qualified for grants, b) the amount of each grant, and c) how many households used the funds on ventilation systems?