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  • Surface Water Flooding

    • Reference: 2021/5082
    • Question by: Anne Clarke
    • Meeting date: 16 December 2021
    Roundtables organised by your Deputy Mayors for Fire, Resilience and Emergency Planning and Environment were set up to identify solutions to improve London’s resilience and to examine the short-term operational improvements that partners with flooding responsibilities can implement to improve London’s incident preparedness and response. What have been the outcomes of these meetings and how can London prepare to avoid surface water flooding or other extreme weather threats this winter?

  • LFB Comments on Planning Applications

    • Reference: 2021/4789
    • Question by: Hina Bokhari
    • Meeting date: 16 December 2021
    How many planning applications has the LFB commented on and deemed unsafe based on fire safety concerns over the last five years? Please break this down by i) borough and ii) year.

  • High Rise Planning Applications and Fire Safety

    • Reference: 2021/4790
    • Question by: Hina Bokhari
    • Meeting date: 16 December 2021
    How many new-build high rise building planning applications have failed on fire safety over the last five years? Please break this information down by i) borough and ii) year.

  • The LFB and Flooding Outreach

    • Reference: 2021/4791
    • Question by: Hina Bokhari
    • Meeting date: 16 December 2021
    What plans does the LFB have to undertake more flooding outreach with businesses and schools?

  • Leaseholder mental health during the fire safety crisis (1)

    • Reference: 2021/4793
    • Question by: Hina Bokhari
    • Meeting date: 16 December 2021
    New research by the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence has found that leaseholders’ mental health has been profoundly affected by the building safety crisis, with 100% of respondents reporting anxiety, depression and in some cases suicidal thoughts. The main driver for this mental ill-health was not fear of a fire erupting, but of potential financial ruin due to the cost of cladding and other fire safety measures like waking watches. In March and May 2021 you said you were calling for Government to review the role and remit of LEASE in order to deliver specialist mental health support. What...

  • Leaseholder mental health during the fire safety crisis (2)

    • Reference: 2021/4794
    • Question by: Hina Bokhari
    • Meeting date: 16 December 2021
    If no progress has been made by the Government towards mental health provision for leaseholders via the LEASE scheme, will you now provide a hub for London leaseholders to access support and advice, as recommended by the Fire, Resilience and Emergency Planning Committee back in March this year?

  • Work of the Strategic Coordination Group

    • Reference: 2021/4827
    • Question by: Caroline Russell
    • Meeting date: 16 December 2021
    Your office and your Deputy Mayor for Fire and Resilience did excellent work through the Strategic Coordination Group (SCG) to unite and coordinate all levels of government across London tackling coronavirus. What work is the SCG doing to prepare London for variants of concern, and to be resilient against coronavirus this winter?

  • London Fire Brigade (1)

    • Reference: 2021/4943
    • Question by: Susan Hall
    • Meeting date: 16 December 2021
    Because of the emerging information from the Grenfell Inquiry Phase 2, are you confident that the LFB training attendance figures are accurate?

  • London Fire Brigade (2)

    • Reference: 2021/4944
    • Question by: Susan Hall
    • Meeting date: 16 December 2021
    How will you monitor the LFB culture review and ensure that its recommendations are delivered? Clearly there have been issues with this in the past.

  • London Fire Brigade (3)

    • Reference: 2021/4945
    • Question by: Susan Hall
    • Meeting date: 16 December 2021
    Six LFB staff have been on Union duties full time in 2020/2021. Do you agree that this is excessive during a time of national crisis?