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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...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

But you cannot give a guarantee?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

Okay, so the environment is a major feature, but we may have to see some scaling down on the bid commitments because of cost overruns?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

On the budget issue, we saw environmental and legacy commitments being scaled back in Athens as a result of going over budget. Can you give an absolute guarantee that there will be no scaling back in London from what was promised in the bid documents?

• Reference: 2006/0104-1
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Existing planning permission for the Stratford City development specifies that a minimum of 2% of energy requirements of the development be provided from locally resourced renewable energy. This is a long way short of the commitment in Towards a One Planet Olympics for an 'Athletes' Village capable of being energy self-sufficient'. As part of the Athletes' Village will now be sited within the Stratford City development, will the ODA seek new planning permission, specifying the Athletes' Village as a Zero-Energy Development? If not, how will the ODA ensure that the Athletes' Village is "energy self -sufficient"?