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• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 10 February 2022

Shaun Bailey AM: Good morning to both of our guests. Can I go back to this idea of taking over some of the responsibility for flood risk in London. Do you think, with the level of change that you are currently going through as an organisation, you would be able to do that, you have that capacity and you have enough capacity to pay attention to that very serious job?

• Question by: Anne Clarke
• Meeting date: 10 February 2022

Anne Clarke AM: Fiona, I would like to come back on something Assembly Member Bailey asked about and I just want to enhance his point around flooding. The LFB is responding more to floods. We saw across London this summer floods, some of them very bad. The LFB was at the forefront of that. On one of my visits to Barnet Fire Station, firefighters said that they felt they needed some training with almost social care because they were taking on responsibilities that were beyond what they had been trained for. They were happy to do it. As people, they...

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 10 February 2022

Emma Best AM: Thanks, Fiona and Andy, for what has been a very transparent session so far today. My question to you is whether you could explain to me the capacity the fire department has to respond to planning applications and procedurally how that works for you when those applications come in.

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 10 February 2022

Len Duvall AM: If I can just go back over some of the issues, if we set aside some of the challenges in terms of service delivery that you have, we know we have the Government thing and the feds do not really understand us and never really supported some of our services. It does not matter, regardless of political persuasion, there is always that tension. We now have regional politicians and the likes of the Mayor [of London] and Fiona Twycross giving the resources that they can provide to you in terms of the service. In that sense, you...

• Reference: 2022/0472
• Question by: Anne Clarke
• Meeting date: 10 February 2022

How are you seeking to transform the London Fire Brigade so that it is well equipped to keep Londoners safe in the future?

• Reference: 2022/0479
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 10 February 2022

How is the London Fire Brigade prioritising the need for adaptation in our climate emergency?

• Reference: 2022/0471
• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 10 February 2022

How is the London Fire Brigade delivering for Londoners?

• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 10 February 2022

Commissioner, this question is to you. It is about the collaboration of the LFB with the other blue-light services and I want to congratulate you particularly on how you supported the London Ambulance Service (LAS) in the pandemic. With the LFB stepping up to meet the LAS, responding to the extreme weather events and dealing with the building safety crisis, despite the fact of having lost 1,100 officers since 2010, how has this impacted on the day-to-day operations of the LFB?

• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 10 February 2022

Since the first London Safety Plan (LSP) was published in 2004, the number of incidents that the LFB responds to, including fires, has fallen. In terms of transformation and the changes that has had on the LFB itself and the way it works, how do you see the number and types of incidents changing in the coming years and how will it affect the way that the LFB responds and is staffed?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 10 February 2022

The LFB is currently using its reserves in terms of balancing its budgets. That cannot be a good thing and I know it is not for the long term and why you have to do it, but you have to do it -. Does it not put additional pressures on you and your transformational process and work to deliver the better services that Londoners need?