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• Reference: 2018/3582
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 06 December 2018

What is the present position and anticipated timescales re the future of the Albert Embankment site and its redevelopment?

• Reference: 2018/3583
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 06 December 2018

What is the present position and anticipated timescales re development of the Southwark site?

• Reference: 2018/3579
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 06 December 2018

What are the London Fire Brigade’s future priorities, and does it have a sufficient budget to meet them?

• Reference: 2018/3584
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 06 December 2018

What factors have increased the workload of the London Fire Brigade this year?

• Reference: 2018/3585
• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 06 December 2018

How do you think the move from the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority to London Fire Commissioner has gone?

• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 06 December 2018

Tom Copley AM: The London Fire Brigade has carried out over 1,100 audits of buildings with potentially flammable cladding since the Grenfell disaster. How are you coping with this workload?

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 06 December 2018

Navin Shah AM: Commissioner, you described the effectiveness of sprinklers in residential buildings as a no-brainer. What progress has the London Fire Brigade made in promoting sprinklers and progressing the recommendations made in the London Assembly’s report [ Never Again: Sprinklers as the next step in fire safety ] on sprinklers published in March this year [2018]?

• 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: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 06 December 2018

Len Duvall AM: Can you just explain to us about some of the issues of risk and managing the capital projects? You have done a bit of reprofiling and it is being phased. Of course, some are in your control and some are not in your control. It is important for the Assembly to understand how you are managing the risk around that and what you are profiling and when you say, “Sorry, we just have to go and do this”?

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

Florence Eshalomi AM: We know that under the former Mayor, 10 stations across London were closed and that was supposed to generate savings of about £28 million. As of July 2016, eight had been sold but there are two still that are on the books, Clerkenwell and Southwark. Clerkenwell was due to generate at least £10 million but this sale has been delayed again. We see from the finance update in July [2018] that this has been delayed again. Do you feel that you have an efficient and steady redevelopment programme in terms of making sure that these sales are...