• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 22 March 2018

Croydon Council has been doing everything it can to tackle knife crime, which has been a particular issue in the borough. It has committed £250,000 to support young people in the borough to make positive choices. The local police force and the Council has also run an engagement campaign that saw police and the Council go into shopping centres in Croydon to talk directly to the community. The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime, Sophie Linden, visited the borough last month and has praised the strength of its knife crime plan. How will you ensure that best practice, such as...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 22 March 2018

Thank you very much, Chairman. My colleague Assembly Member Florence Eshalomi would, if she were here, be echoing your remarks about Thames Water’s performance, the lack of information and the lack of co-ordination between statutory agencies, but she would ask - and maybe you could ask your [proposed] Deputy Mayor for Fire and Resilience to include - whether there is a case for us supporting strengthening that community resilience in times of emergency and whether you have a role via the Resilience Strategy for us to invest some time and energy into making sure that if there is community resilience...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 22 March 2018

Mr Mayor, I am very pleased you have highlighted the plight of vulnerable people and I, too, have concerns about whether the list of vulnerable people is actually up-to-date and accurate. I would ask you to raise that as a constant in those talks that you are having. My constituents had water cut off for a considerable time and at one stage there were only two bottle plants where they could go to collect, one in south London and one in north London, which was useless for my constituents. It implied that in those dangerous conditions they had to drive...

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 22 March 2018

Mr Mayor, you will recall when the last Home Secretary - now the Prime Minister - brought in Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) the direction of travel inferred in much of the discussion at the time was that Probation Services would follow on. You are the PCC in terms of London. Did you make that point to the Justice Secretary?

• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 22 March 2018

Thank you, Chairman. Thank you again for that meeting that you attended. The issue here, though, is that for my residents, it is more of noise rather than vibration. They are suffering some 50-plus decibels, which is horrendous at night. No one is criticising TfL - and it is worth putting this on record - for the efforts they have made because they really have tried very hard and have tried many innovative ideas to try to suppress the noise. One of the things that they are going to be doing in relation to my residents is putting up a...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 22 March 2018

Andrew Boff AM: Mr Mayor, in your commitments in the Strategy, you say that you wish: “... to put into place a strategic response across London to encourage women to leave prostitution.” What services should be available to those women who do not wish to leave prostitution?

• 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.

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 08 February 2018

Tony Devenish AM: Good morning, Deputy Mayor. If we tried to paint a picture of the LFB in, say, eight years, 2026, could you paint me some big pictures of what the real differences will be, please?

• 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...

• 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...