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  • Supplementary [3]

    • 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...
  • Supplementary [6]

    • Question by: Unmesh Desai
    • Meeting date: 06 December 2018
    Unmesh Desai AM: Commissioner, you touched on aspects of safety such as electrical safety, but I want to ask you very specifically about safety visits to high-risk people and places, which have declined by some 6,000 since December 2015. Are you satisfied that the Brigade is doing all it can to help vulnerable people, such as residents in care homes, to stay safe?