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• Question by: Peter Fortune
• Meeting date: 10 February 2022

Peter Fortune AM: Just to say I agree with my colleague about the corporate speak and holistic thought cascades and all that sort of stuff. It does not get us anywhere at all. More seriously and sadly, just reviewing some of the advice from the GTI, there was some pretty brutal advice given from Danny Friedman QC that talked about the Grenfell disaster and some of the response to the fire that was “extreme but foreseeable” and also criticises the service for having “no developed thinking at all”. I know you are a serious man who thinks about this deeply...

• Question by: Nick Rogers
• Meeting date: 10 February 2022

Nick Rogers AM : Thank you, Chair. Just briefly on the subject of the museum, I would highly recommend the little museum that the firefighters at New Malden Station have developed in their mess room. It is quite the collection they have there. To build on some of the points that Assembly Member Hall was making around collocation, Commissioner, you mentioned that you are engaged in regular discussions on this issue. You mentioned Purley and was it Hornchurch? Which was the other one you mentioned, sorry?

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

How is the London Fire Brigade delivering for Londoners?

• Reference: 2015/1564
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 03 June 2015

With the Metropolitan Police Service needing to make £800m in savings, it will become increasingly vital that it can deliver more with less. What role does technology have to play in providing London with a police force fit for the 21st century?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 03 June 2015

I just wanted to explore a bit more the interaction with gangs because you are right, Mr Mayor, that the anti-gang command or the new Trident Command, as it was, was launched at the end of 2011. Obviously, there would have been a bump in activity, arrests and convictions during the early part of 2012. Many of those gang nominals will have had, in my view, relatively paltry sentences and will be now re-emerging from the secure estate. What connection is there between them reaching the end of their sentences and re-emerging and this rise in activity, which may well...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 03 June 2015

Mr Mayor, I do not like to kick a man when he is down, but I am always willing to make an exception in the case of the Liberal Democrats. You have mentioned Nick de Bois’ attempts to introduce mandatory prison sentences for second offences of possession of a knife. Do you recall that it was in fact the Liberal Democrats who opposed that amendment?