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Key Challenges for the London Fire Brigade
- Reference: 2018/0311
- Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
- Meeting date: 08 February 2018
What are the key challenges for the London Fire Brigade over the next 12 months?
Key Challenges for the London Fire Brigade (Supplementary) [1]
- Question by: Andrew Dismore
- Meeting date: 08 February 2018
Andrew Dismore AM: Thank you, Chair. Could I congratulate you both, the Commissioner on her reappointment, I guess, and Fiona on her forthcoming appointment as Deputy Mayor [for Fire and Resilience]? I am sure - and I know - both of you will do excellent work in those roles. Could I ask Fiona? After the Government refused to provide extra funding for the Brigade post Grenfell either for the extra equipment needed or for the running costs of the Brigade, we would all agree that the Mayor’s decision to step in and provide extra funding for the Brigade and sharing...
Key Challenges for the London Fire Brigade (Supplementary) [3]
- Question by: Tom Copley
- Meeting date: 08 February 2018
Tom Copley AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning and congratulations to you both. My question is on high-rise building inspections. What progress is being made post the Grenfell Tower fire to ensure the safety of tall buildings in London, including not just council-owned and social housing but also privately-owned housing blocks and non-housing public and commercial buildings?
Key Challenges for the London Fire Brigade (Supplementary) [6]
- Question by: Navin Shah
- Meeting date: 08 February 2018
Navin Shah AM: Thank you, Chair. Commissioner and Chair, both of you, a very good morning and congratulations. Commissioner, thank you for seeing me last week on the subject of sprinklers and that is the issue I want to talk to you about today as well. I have a couple of questions. Can you tell me please what the Fire Authority’s stance is on the installation of automatic fire sprinkler systems in residential buildings, care homes and similar buildings where people live in particular? Thank you.
Key Challenges for the London Fire Brigade (Supplementary) [7]
- Question by: Unmesh Desai
- Meeting date: 08 February 2018
Unmesh Desai AM: Thank you, Chair. Again, my congratulations to both of you on your appointments. If I could ask you questions about blue-light collaboration and also about the Harris review, to some extent, some of the questions I was going to ask have already been covered in your answer, Commissioner, to Assembly Member Pidgeon, who happened to get in before me. However, if we could start off with blue-light collaboration and noting the answers that you have already given to Assembly Member Pidgeon, Commissioner, what are the barriers to the LFB’s efforts to comply with the duty to collaborate...
Key Challenges for the London Fire Brigade (Supplementary) [8]
- Question by: Joanne McCartney
- Meeting date: 08 February 2018
Joanne McCartney AM: Yes, I want to ask about something you touched on in your opening and that was the Total Recalls campaign and white goods fires. From my figures, you had 329 fires last year caused by faulty white goods. You have done some work on the cost to the public purse and it looks like it is around £19 million to £20 million per year that these fires cost London taxpayers. Do you think that the Government’s working group on product safety is strong enough? I know you have talked about a register now being put in place...
Key Challenges for the London Fire Brigade (Supplementary) [9]
- Question by: Leonie Cooper
- Meeting date: 08 February 2018
Leonie Cooper AM: Thank you very much, Chair. Like other Assembly Members, I would like to join with adding my congratulations to both of you. It seems very appropriate in this week, when we have just celebrated the 100th anniversary of some women being given the vote and changes to the Representation of the People Act, to see both a female Commissioner and also yet another woman Deputy Mayor. I am very pleased to say that the Mayor has made that part of his modus operandi , it would be fair to say, in who he has appointed as his...
Key Challenges for the London Fire Brigade (Supplementary) [10]
- Question by: Florence Eshalomi MP
- Meeting date: 08 February 2018
Florence Eshalomi AM: Good morning to you both. I wanted to add my congratulations to both of you for your new appointments. I do remember watching the tragedy of Grenfell unfold because my son was just a week old and so we were watching the news all night long. I just commend you both for the courage and leadership that you showed through some of the difficult challenges that London has witnessed over the last year. I wanted to focus on some of the work that the LFB leads on youth engagement and how we get our young people involved...
Key Challenges for the London Fire Brigade (Supplementary) [11]
- Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
- Meeting date: 08 February 2018
Jennette Arnold OBE AM: Thank you, Acting Chair, Deputy Chairman. Commissioner, I have some questions for you and, like my colleagues, let me add my congratulations to you on your appointment as the first female Fire Commissioner. Now, I heard the answers you gave to my colleague Assembly Member Russell’s questions about gender and so I want to ask now specifically about racial diversity. From the LFB’s monitoring data of December 2017, I see here that from the operational staff of 4,612, 606 were of BAME heritage: 13.14%. We will all know that that is quite woeful. Can I just...
Key Challenges for the London Fire Brigade (Supplementary) [13]
- Question by: Onkar Sahota
- Meeting date: 08 February 2018
Dr Onkar Sahota AM: First of all, let me add my congratulations on your nomination, Dr Fiona Twycross, as the Deputy Mayor and also your reappointment, Commissioner, to the post. I want to talk about the assistance given to the firefighters and to operational and non-operational staff after the tragic event of Grenfell, and ask what support was given to the fire service.