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• Reference: 2023/1010
• Question by: Chair, London Assembly
• Meeting date: 09 February 2023

Can you update the Assembly on the priorities and challenges facing the London Fire Brigade?

• Question by: Anne Clarke
• Meeting date: 09 February 2023

London needs you to deliver a brigade that is trusted to serve and protect our city, but with that, we need to have a workplace where all Londoners feel they can work and thrive, regardless of their background. Can you deliver this?

• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 09 February 2023

Thank you. I just want to start by recognising that the Fire Commissioner’s openness and honesty has been really appreciated by all of us in the wake of the Culture Review and the acceptance that you have given the 23 recommendations by Nazir Afzal [OBE, Chair, Independent Review into Culture of London Fire Brigade]. You also publicly apologised to Jaden Francois-Esprit’s mum, Linda, out there at the last FREP Committee meeting on Tuesday. However, Linda has said that she still feels that no one has been held accountable for Jaden’s death, and that the full extent of the trauma that...

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 09 February 2023

Thank you. Morning, both. Deputy Mayor, there cannot be anybody around this table who was not horrified by the Cultural Review; some of us thought that it would be bad, but some of the things that were reported were absolutely disgraceful. Now, as normal, we ask for the Mayor to attend Plenary meetings because he is ultimately responsible politically. He always refuses, although he has told me once, “Just pick up the phone and I will attend meetings.” The reason he is not here today, he says, is because he has been summonsed by us on three occasions and therefore...

• Reference: 2022/4369
• Question by: Chair, London Assembly
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

What are the biggest challenges with regards to policing and crime in London, and how are you and the Metropolitan Police Service delivering for Londoners?

• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Caroline Russell AM: Thank you very much, Chair. My question is for the Commissioner. In October 2022, when you first appeared in front of the Police and Crime Committee, we spoke about diversion as opposed to criminalisation for the possession of cannabis. One of the things you said you did in your time in Surrey back in 2011 was “to be one of the driving forces nationally in building a different approach with out-of-court disposals.” You described how that eventually became community resolutions. It is clear that you see the benefits of diversion for people who are stopped with cannabis...

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Unmesh Desai AM: Thank you, Chair. Commissioner, my question is to you. Trust and confidence in the MPS in London is a key issue currently. How are you working to restore the trust of all Londoners? I appreciate that you have partially answered this question in response to the question from the Chair, but can you be more specific and give some examples, especially with regard to regaining the trust of Black Londoners, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Londoners, women Londoners, etcetera ?

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Susan Hall AM: Thank you. May I say first of all, Sir Mark, thank you for your robust answers to Assembly Member Russell. There is no doubt that politicians do mean well, but it is absolutely vital that we look at things in the round. I really applaud your robust answers. To be fair, Sir Steve House had started to row back, and I am pleased to see that you are saying what you are because figures on both sides of an argument need to be looked at. Thank you for that; I was thrilled to hear that. Mr Mayor...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Lovely, thank you. Baroness Casey’s interim report found much wrong in the MPS, and in particular, systems and behaviours that are racist and sexist. I want to start with you, Sir Mark, because I put this to the Mayor the other week. The report gave an example of one borough team where 37% of female employees had experienced unwanted sexual advances or touching in the last six months. What are you going to do to tackle this disgusting behaviour?

• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Marina Ahmad AM: Thank you, Chair. Mr Mayor, as you know, the City Hall strategy about violence against women and girls has been published this year. Could you tell us what the challenges and the successes have been to date?