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• Reference: 2014/4106
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 05 November 2014

Will you set a target for the London Fire Brigade to become a carbon neutral service? Jenny Jones AM: By the way, what I mean by ‘carbon neutral services’ is not zero emission. It is carbon neutral in the sense that you can have one area that is carbon positive but another that is carbon negative.

• Reference: 2013/4408
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 04 December 2013

Are you monitoring climate change research suggesting that, on the basis of current policy failures, the world may warm by more than 2 degrees centigrade within thirty years, and are you reviewing your risk analysis and adaptation actions to consider this high emissions scenario?

• Reference: 2012/0213-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 September 2012

Following the problems with AssetCo and Babcocks, do you still think it wise to privatise core parts of the fire brigade?

• Reference: 2012/0214-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 September 2012

How many fires did the London Fire Brigade attend in care homes in 2011?

• Reference: 2012/0215-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 September 2012

How many fires did the London Fire Brigade attend in blocks of dedicated student accommodation in 2011?

• Reference: 2012/0216-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 September 2012

Has there been any progress in making care homes publish fire risk assessments, and to generally improve fire precaution in care homes, since I raised this issue with you in September 2011?

• Reference: 2009/0115-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 21 October 2009

Is it acceptable that around 300 workers on the Olympic Park construction sites are receiving poverty pay?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 21 October 2009

Thank you very much. I am very glad to hear that you have made progress on that because it is incredibly important. Congratulations on being on time and on budget. That is pretty amazing and I am sure we are all happy about that. One of the next steps that you could do, in fact, with the Living Wage, is to have accreditation from London Citizens and I gather that organisations like the London Development Agency (LDA) already do have that. I wondered if you would take that next step and get accreditation and then, perhaps, you could also work...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

I am more than slightly concerned about the legacy, which you have all mentioned in your presentations. Somehow I am getting the feeling that in the original bid the legacy was a huge part of it, to regenerate a very poor area of London. There was this idea that the Olympics would actually fund the legacy, but it is starting to look (and I am well aware that when we are asking our questions we ask so many questions based on newspaper reports because we do not have the information from you) that it looks more now as if selling...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

I would like to go back to the environmental and social issues. I would like to float an idea past you and see your reaction. It is worth spending more money and going over budget to include all these environmental ,sustainability and social issues than it is to come in on budget and reject all of these things as being something we cannot achieve. Remember we are talking about 2012 here. People will have very different expectations of what sustainability is by then.