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• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 06 September 2018

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Thank you for that. Will the decision to delay the opening until autumn next year [2019] ‑ it would be great to find out which month in autumn ‑ mean further delay in the opening of the other sections and the final full opening of the line in December 2019?

• Question by: Florence Eshalomi MP
• Meeting date: 06 September 2018

Florence Eshalomi AM: Simon, is there anything you want to add to that?

• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 06 September 2018

David Kurten AM: Let us come back to the technical aspects. It seems the main problems are getting the three different signalling infrastructures to talk to each other. If you had an extension from Abbey Wood to Ebbsfleet then you would need Crossrail to go onto Southeastern track, which might be a fourth signalling structure. Would it not be? You are shaking your heads.

• 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?

• 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?

• 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...

• 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...

• 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?

• 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...

• 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...