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• 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?

• 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...

• Reference: 2014/4106
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 05 November 2014

Will you set a target for the London Fire Brigade to become a carbon neutral service? Jenny Jones AM: By the way, what I mean by ‘carbon neutral services’ is not zero emission. It is carbon neutral in the sense that you can have one area that is carbon positive but another that is carbon negative.

• Reference: 2013/4408
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 04 December 2013

Are you monitoring climate change research suggesting that, on the basis of current policy failures, the world may warm by more than 2 degrees centigrade within thirty years, and are you reviewing your risk analysis and adaptation actions to consider this high emissions scenario?

• Reference: 2012/0213-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 September 2012

Following the problems with AssetCo and Babcocks, do you still think it wise to privatise core parts of the fire brigade?

• Reference: 2012/0214-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 September 2012

How many fires did the London Fire Brigade attend in care homes in 2011?

• Reference: 2012/0215-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 September 2012

How many fires did the London Fire Brigade attend in blocks of dedicated student accommodation in 2011?

• Reference: 2012/0216-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 September 2012

Has there been any progress in making care homes publish fire risk assessments, and to generally improve fire precaution in care homes, since I raised this issue with you in September 2011?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 12 September 2012

It is obviously going to be a very, very difficult time for the Fire Authority, for brigade staff and others. Can we have your assurances that we will not have the sort of combative conflict-driven style that characterised the previous Chairman's approach so much, and often made difficult decisions and difficult negotiations even more difficult than they need be?