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

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: My questions are about your future priorities and whether your budget will impact on your fire safety work, especially relating to tackling dangerous household electrical goods. I know the London Fire Brigade has a really good record here, but the challenges you are facing are soaring with internet sales particularly. I have read that in London every day a dangerous electrical good counts for one fire, which is a really significant figure, and we know from the Grenfell [Tower] inquiry that that almost certainly started from a fridge-freezer. Electrical Safety First highlights that the key problem...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Can I just pursue this point, to agree with Jenny's point - the fuel poverty point - that by focusing on the affordable housing you get an added social benefit, but the Strategy focuses on the larger strategic developments. Isn't there a lot more that we can be doing given that I think the statistic is that 98% of all residential completions in the last year for which figures were available, were fewer than 100. By focusing on the larger ones we are missing the greater number. Are you satisfied that enough is going on to get the standards up...

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Before we move on to the next question I wonder if I could just ask you this: you have referred, Neale and David, to the relatively short time period covered by the Strategy. Leaving aside issues of the outcomes of elections and so on, what is anticipated in terms of roll forward of the Strategy, revision after it has been adopted and when a new one would come, or a revised one would come, onto the stocks to take us beyond 2011?