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• 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...

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 08 February 2018

Susan Hall AM: Thank you. Good morning, both. Fiona, massive congratulations to you. In your opening statement, you said that we are very proud of the Brigade and of course we are, and we were very happy on this side that Mayor Khan decided to do three different reports to see how well the service was doing, given the closure of the stations. Of course, it came out that the LFB was in a very good place and so we were very happy about that. When will you publish the new corporate governance arrangements prior to the abolition of the...

• 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?

• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 08 February 2018

Caroline Russell AM: Commissioner, I wanted to say first of all how powerful it was to hear you speaking about the Firefighting Sexism campaign last week at the Young Women’s Trust event upstairs and how really shocking it was to hear about the very negative reaction from some people on Twitter to the suggestion that Fireman Sam might be renamed ‘Firefighter Sam’. That awful Twitter reaction shows just how much we still have to push for gender equality, as you said in your opening when talking about the importance of gender-neutral language and why your Firefighting Sexism campaign is so...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 08 February 2018

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Thank you very much. I want to pick up some issues around resilience today. Recommendation 47 in the Lord Harris review stated that the emergency medical response pilot between the LFB and the [London] Ambulance Service (LAS), which is in a number of boroughs, should “be expanded to all London boroughs as quickly as training resources allow”. However, in the Mayor’s One Year On response to that report [ Harris Review into London’s Preparedness to Respond to a Major Terrorist Incident: Progress Report – One Year On , 2017], he says the process has been delayed...

• 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.

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...