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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: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 07 December 2016

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: I would like to question you about a specific part of the Mayor’s manifesto that stated that the Mayor would “make sure Londoners get a fair deal from developers”. Profits of large building firms have exploded by more than 500% in the last six years and many local authorities simply have not been able to negotiate enough affordable housing with developers over recent years. One of the issues is the expertise and this whole industry around viability assessments when experts work for the boroughs one day and then for developers the next. Can you explain how...