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• Reference: 2018/0310
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 08 February 2018

What are you doing to ensure that the workforce of the London Fire Brigade Service reflects London’s population and its diversity?

• 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: 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...