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  • Question and Answer Session: London Fire Commissioner and Deputy Mayor for Fire and Resilience

    • 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 and Answer Session: London Fire Commissioner and Deputy Mayor for Fire and Resilience (Supplementary) [1]

    • 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 and Answer Session: London Fire Commissioner and Deputy Mayor for Fire and Resilience (Supplementary) [2]

    • 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 and Answer Session: London Fire Commissioner and Deputy Mayor for Fire and Resilience (Supplementary) [3]

    • 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...
  • Economic Recovery in London (Supplementary) [10]

    • Question by: Nicky Gavron
    • Meeting date: 23 July 2020
    Nicky Gavron AM: Thank you, Chair. Panel, good morning. I have seen that we have had quite a lot of questions on the arts and creative sectors, but I want to drill down now. This morning the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee published its report on some of what we have been drilling down on. I would like to ask a number of you to think about this question, but perhaps I could start with Sam Gurney from the TUC. We know that the self-employment income support scheme is available only if you get more than half your...