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• Reference: 2023/1010
• Question by: Chair, London Assembly
• Meeting date: 09 February 2023

Can you update the Assembly on the priorities and challenges facing the London Fire Brigade?

• Question by: Anne Clarke
• Meeting date: 09 February 2023

London needs you to deliver a brigade that is trusted to serve and protect our city, but with that, we need to have a workplace where all Londoners feel they can work and thrive, regardless of their background. Can you deliver this?

• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 09 February 2023

Thank you. I just want to start by recognising that the Fire Commissioner’s openness and honesty has been really appreciated by all of us in the wake of the Culture Review and the acceptance that you have given the 23 recommendations by Nazir Afzal [OBE, Chair, Independent Review into Culture of London Fire Brigade]. You also publicly apologised to Jaden Francois-Esprit’s mum, Linda, out there at the last FREP Committee meeting on Tuesday. However, Linda has said that she still feels that no one has been held accountable for Jaden’s death, and that the full extent of the trauma that...

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 09 February 2023

Thank you. Morning, both. Deputy Mayor, there cannot be anybody around this table who was not horrified by the Cultural Review; some of us thought that it would be bad, but some of the things that were reported were absolutely disgraceful. Now, as normal, we ask for the Mayor to attend Plenary meetings because he is ultimately responsible politically. He always refuses, although he has told me once, “Just pick up the phone and I will attend meetings.” The reason he is not here today, he says, is because he has been summonsed by us on three occasions and therefore...

• Reference: 2022/2792
• Question by: Chair, London Assembly
• Meeting date: 08 September 2022

What are the Mayor’s priorities for the Adult Education Budget (AEB) and what are the key changes that the Mayor has made to how the AEB is allocated since it was delegated?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 08 September 2022

Len Duvall AM: Thank you, Chair. In terms of the UKSPF and the skills in London, how does that fund adequately replace the funding London received for skills from the European Union (EU) and how does that factor in to the work of the AEB?

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 08 September 2022

Unmesh Desai AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning, panel. My question is to you, Michelle. What are the current skills gaps facing London and how will the AEB tackle them?

• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 08 September 2022

Zack Polanski AM: Thank you very much, Chair. We are in a climate crisis and we know that the solutions to the cost of living crisis, the energy crisis and the climate crisis are the same solutions. One of the biggest ones at the moment is that we need to insulate homes, so I want to ask you about your green jobs. Citizens UK has been in touch with me. In April 2021 it wrote to the Mayor to ask for an annual report on green jobs, particularly around insulating homes. Will we be getting those regular reports?

• Question by: Peter Fortune
• Meeting date: 08 September 2022

Peter Fortune AM: Thank you very much, Chair, and good morning, Jules. We have talked about the devolution of responsibility to the Mayor’s Office. With that devolution comes great responsibility as well, especially, as you said, where this is the largest revenue budget that we control. I have some particular concerns around that money being used properly and efficiently, especially around the auditing of subcontractors. There are some very significant challenges there. Can you tell us what you are doing to mitigate those risks?

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 08 September 2022

Léonie Cooper AM: Thank you very much, Chair. I want to come back to the issue about what percentage of the AEB - which I understand is £318 million in total - is being spent on supporting people into training for low-carbon, circular economy, climate-ready jobs. I am being very specific about what they are.