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• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 01 July 2015

Fiona Twycross AM: Thank you. I just want to come back a little bit to the part in the question that refers to fairness, which we touched on a little bit in terms of increasing employability but not in terms of issues of pay. I was at a meeting last night when a number of cleaners spoke quite passionately about the impact on their lives of low pay. We know that the number of jobs paying less than the London Living Wage has risen quite dramatically in recent years while average pay rates have also been declining in real terms...

• Reference: 2015/1600
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 03 June 2015

Can you provide an update on the work Falcon (Fraud and Linked Crime Online) team carry out, and the level of recorded offences for the past five years?

• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 06 February 2015

Fiona Twycross AM: I am going to shift the question a little bit away from housing. Obviously, we all recognise the need for housing, but there is a danger that we create a false dichotomy between the use of land for housing and the use of land for other purposes. Does the Plan recognise and deal with the tension between the need to provide land for housing and the need for all other uses including employment and infrastructure?

• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 28 January 2015

Fiona Twycross AM: I want to talk a bit more on your failure for a group that you mentioned several times in your opening remarks but are singularly failing to support, which is the poorest and most vulnerable Londoners. Because of your failure to address poverty in London effectively, particularly in-work poverty, I have a bit of a problem taking your budget seriously because the truth is it is more illusion and spin from the Mayor who talks a good talk and writes a good press release but the fact is that you are still overseeing an annual increase in...

• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 09 December 2014

I would like to ask a question about the Metropolitan Police Service’s capacity to tackle female genital mutilation (FGM) now that Department of Health statistics show that London accounts for over half of all FGM cases in England, and I wanted to ask the Commissioner, given we heard last month that ten out of 12 FGM cases put forward by the MPS to the CPS have fallen, are you concerned at the ability we have to prosecute the cases and what lessons have you taken from this for the future?

• Reference: 2014/4119
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 05 November 2014

What are you doing to ensure that LFEPA represents and reflects the communities it serves?

• Reference: 2014/4120
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 05 November 2014

How many square feet of unoccupied a) office b) residential/dormitory and c) other space is there in the Brigade estate, including the recently closed stations?

• Reference: 2014/4121
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 05 November 2014

Can you please advise how many BAME operational staff are eligible for retirement in the next 5 years? Please provide information about what roles they are in and what action being taken to ensure that levels of BAME rise to reflect the diversity in London and do not fall as a result of retirements.

• Reference: 2014/4122
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 05 November 2014

What is London Fire Brigade doing to promote employee development?

• Reference: 2014/4123
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 05 November 2014

Can you please advise what the retention figures are for operational female staff, and operational male staff?