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• Reference: 2016/0583
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 22 February 2016

Further to the findings of the House of Commons Communities and Local Government Select Committee inquiry into housing associations and the Right to Buy, do you accept that the government's imposition of a 1 per cent rent cut for four years will lead to a significant reduction in housing associations' income , damaging their ability to build new homes in London?

• Reference: 2016/0584
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 22 February 2016

Do you recognise that large numbers of homes in London sold through the existing statutory right to buy for council tenants have become private sector rental properties? Do you share the concern expressed by the House of Commons Communities and Local Government Select Committee that the potential for selling social housing assets at a discount, only for them to become both more expensive and possibly lower quality housing in the private rented sector, is a significant concern?

• Reference: 2016/0585
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 22 February 2016

Given the GLA is now forecasting only 5,172 affordable housing completions in 2015/16, do you regret delivering the lowest number of affordable homes built in London in a single year since Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) reporting began in the early 1990s?

• Reference: 2016/0586
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 22 February 2016

Further to the paper discussed by your Housing Investment Group on 9 December 2015, can you confirm that your target to part-fund the delivery of 42,000 affordable homes over the 2015-18 period is now unlikely to be met?

• Reference: 2016/0587
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 22 February 2016

Can you confirm the average rent per week (£) for: i) 'discounted rents'; and ii) 'capped rents' on the allocations made through your current housing programme? Please also list these figures as a percentage of market rent.

• Reference: 2016/0588
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 22 February 2016

Of the 39,000 new homes you promised to build on surplus GLA-owned land back in 2008 (Boris Johnson, housing manifesto), how many have you delivered?

• Reference: 2016/0589
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 22 February 2016

Can you provide an update on when the purpose-built BYD K10 electric double-decker bus will enter passenger service in London?

• Reference: 2016/0590
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 22 February 2016

What is your assessment of the potential impact on London's waste management of closing the Lakeside Energy from Waste facility, as would be required were a third runway to be built at Heathrow?

• Reference: 2016/0591
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 22 February 2016

Do you accept that limit values set for concentrations of major air pollutants in the ambient air are absolute and that any deterioration in air quality, at whatever level, would render a proposal unsound?

• Reference: 2016/0592
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 22 February 2016

Further to your answer to MQ2015/4309, are you able to provide a list of the vehicles currently being driven in central London on an average weekday (24hrs), broken down by vehicle type, (e.g. car, bus, coach etc.), euro standard, and fuel type (e.g. petrol, diesel etc.)