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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: 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...