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  • Workforce Diversity - London Fire Brigade

    • Reference: 2018/0310
    • Question by: Caroline Russell
    • Meeting date: 08 February 2018
    What are you doing to ensure that the workforce of the London Fire Brigade Service reflects London’s population and its diversity?

  • Key Challenges for the London Fire Brigade

    • Reference: 2018/0311
    • Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
    • Meeting date: 08 February 2018
    What are the key challenges for the London Fire Brigade over the next 12 months?

  • Key Challenges for the London Fire Brigade (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Andrew Dismore
    • Meeting date: 08 February 2018
    Andrew Dismore AM: Thank you, Chair. Could I congratulate you both, the Commissioner on her reappointment, I guess, and Fiona on her forthcoming appointment as Deputy Mayor [for Fire and Resilience]? I am sure - and I know - both of you will do excellent work in those roles. Could I ask Fiona? After the Government refused to provide extra funding for the Brigade post Grenfell either for the extra equipment needed or for the running costs of the Brigade, we would all agree that the Mayor’s decision to step in and provide extra funding for the Brigade and sharing...

  • Key Challenges for the London Fire Brigade (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Susan Hall
    • Meeting date: 08 February 2018
    Susan Hall AM: Thank you. Good morning, both. Fiona, massive congratulations to you. In your opening statement, you said that we are very proud of the Brigade and of course we are, and we were very happy on this side that Mayor Khan decided to do three different reports to see how well the service was doing, given the closure of the stations. Of course, it came out that the LFB was in a very good place and so we were very happy about that. When will you publish the new corporate governance arrangements prior to the abolition of the...

  • Key Challenges for the London Fire Brigade (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: Tom Copley
    • Meeting date: 08 February 2018
    Tom Copley AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning and congratulations to you both. My question is on high-rise building inspections. What progress is being made post the Grenfell Tower fire to ensure the safety of tall buildings in London, including not just council-owned and social housing but also privately-owned housing blocks and non-housing public and commercial buildings?

  • Key Challenges for the London Fire Brigade (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: Caroline Russell
    • Meeting date: 08 February 2018
    Caroline Russell AM: Commissioner, I wanted to say first of all how powerful it was to hear you speaking about the Firefighting Sexism campaign last week at the Young Women’s Trust event upstairs and how really shocking it was to hear about the very negative reaction from some people on Twitter to the suggestion that Fireman Sam might be renamed ‘Firefighter Sam’. That awful Twitter reaction shows just how much we still have to push for gender equality, as you said in your opening when talking about the importance of gender-neutral language and why your Firefighting Sexism campaign is so...

  • Key Challenges for the London Fire Brigade (Supplementary) [5]

    • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
    • Meeting date: 08 February 2018
    Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Thank you very much. I want to pick up some issues around resilience today. Recommendation 47 in the Lord Harris review stated that the emergency medical response pilot between the LFB and the [London] Ambulance Service (LAS), which is in a number of boroughs, should “be expanded to all London boroughs as quickly as training resources allow”. However, in the Mayor’s One Year On response to that report [ Harris Review into London’s Preparedness to Respond to a Major Terrorist Incident: Progress Report – One Year On , 2017], he says the process has been delayed...

  • Key Challenges for the London Fire Brigade (Supplementary) [6]

    • Question by: Navin Shah
    • Meeting date: 08 February 2018
    Navin Shah AM: Thank you, Chair. Commissioner and Chair, both of you, a very good morning and congratulations. Commissioner, thank you for seeing me last week on the subject of sprinklers and that is the issue I want to talk to you about today as well. I have a couple of questions. Can you tell me please what the Fire Authority’s stance is on the installation of automatic fire sprinkler systems in residential buildings, care homes and similar buildings where people live in particular? Thank you.

  • Key Challenges for the London Fire Brigade (Supplementary) [7]

    • Question by: Unmesh Desai
    • Meeting date: 08 February 2018
    Unmesh Desai AM: Thank you, Chair. Again, my congratulations to both of you on your appointments. If I could ask you questions about blue-light collaboration and also about the Harris review, to some extent, some of the questions I was going to ask have already been covered in your answer, Commissioner, to Assembly Member Pidgeon, who happened to get in before me. However, if we could start off with blue-light collaboration and noting the answers that you have already given to Assembly Member Pidgeon, Commissioner, what are the barriers to the LFB’s efforts to comply with the duty to collaborate...

  • Key Challenges for the London Fire Brigade (Supplementary) [8]

    • Question by: Joanne McCartney
    • Meeting date: 08 February 2018
    Joanne McCartney AM: Yes, I want to ask about something you touched on in your opening and that was the Total Recalls campaign and white goods fires. From my figures, you had 329 fires last year caused by faulty white goods. You have done some work on the cost to the public purse and it looks like it is around £19 million to £20 million per year that these fires cost London taxpayers. Do you think that the Government’s working group on product safety is strong enough? I know you have talked about a register now being put in place...