• Question by: Anne Clarke
• Meeting date: 10 February 2022

Anne Clarke AM: Fiona, I would like to come back on something Assembly Member Bailey asked about and I just want to enhance his point around flooding. The LFB is responding more to floods. We saw across London this summer floods, some of them very bad. The LFB was at the forefront of that. On one of my visits to Barnet Fire Station, firefighters said that they felt they needed some training with almost social care because they were taking on responsibilities that were beyond what they had been trained for. They were happy to do it. As people, they...

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 10 February 2022

Shaun Bailey AM: Good morning to both of our guests. Can I go back to this idea of taking over some of the responsibility for flood risk in London. Do you think, with the level of change that you are currently going through as an organisation, you would be able to do that, you have that capacity and you have enough capacity to pay attention to that very serious job?

• Question by: Nick Rogers
• Meeting date: 10 February 2022

Nick Rogers AM : Thank you, Chair. Just briefly on the subject of the museum, I would highly recommend the little museum that the firefighters at New Malden Station have developed in their mess room. It is quite the collection they have there. To build on some of the points that Assembly Member Hall was making around collocation, Commissioner, you mentioned that you are engaged in regular discussions on this issue. You mentioned Purley and was it Hornchurch? Which was the other one you mentioned, sorry?

• Question by: Peter Fortune
• Meeting date: 10 February 2022

Peter Fortune AM: Just to say I agree with my colleague about the corporate speak and holistic thought cascades and all that sort of stuff. It does not get us anywhere at all. More seriously and sadly, just reviewing some of the advice from the GTI, there was some pretty brutal advice given from Danny Friedman QC that talked about the Grenfell disaster and some of the response to the fire that was “extreme but foreseeable” and also criticises the service for having “no developed thinking at all”. I know you are a serious man who thinks about this deeply...

• Question by: Sakina Sheikh
• Meeting date: 10 February 2022

Sakina Sheikh AM: It has been really fantastic to hear your answers to the questions that have come before, Deputy Mayor and Commissioner. Anyone who has done their homework knows that Sadiq [Khan, Mayor of London] has been a fierce advocate for improving building safety in London, pushing developers in the right direction on this particular point. Commissioner, you said in your earlier comments that we need to see integrity, not profit, as a driver for the way that developers integrate building safety in their plans. You are absolutely spot on and that is exactly what the London Plan pushes...

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 10 February 2022

Tony Devenish AM: At the Regeneration Committee a couple of years ago we talked about estates strategy and, when we asked about the carbon footprint of the strategy, we were met by silence. I do remember the meeting very clearly. Would you say you are leading on carbon matters that have been mentioned by Assembly Member Polanski in terms of the estate and not the appliances of the LFB? To the Deputy Mayor, would you be up to a pilot of possibly merging an LAS and an LFB station and making it a zero-carbon best-in-practice project?

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 04 February 2021

Tony Devenish AM: Thank you, Chair. My question is to Dr Tom. Firstly, Dr Tom, thank you so much for all you have done. You have always been very responsive to my constituents on all health issues and it is really appreciated. I think now what we have heard this morning is the NHS is doing a fantastic job but we need all the team to communicate, communicate, communicate and communicate some more. I am amazed that the Mayor is not here this morning because he was always banging on about being a son of a bus driver until we...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 04 February 2021

Joanne McCartney AM : My first question is to Martin Machray. We have heard earlier that some Londoners are hesitant to get the vaccine and work is being carried out to build their trust and confidence, but are records being kept consistently across all of London’s Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) of those who have declined the vaccine, and is there capacity in the system in a few months’ time to contact those people again whose confidence may have risen?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 04 February 2021

Murad Qureshi AM: Thank you, Chair. Can I address my question to Martin and then Tom? Martin, you informed us earlier that yesterday we had over a million Londoners vaccinated with the first jab. Martin Machray (Joint Regional Chief Nurse for London and Covid-19 Incident Director, NHS England): Yes. Murad Qureshi AM: That is great news, but can you give us an estimate of the proportion of Londoners not registered with GPs, and how we intend to vaccinate them?

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 04 February 2021

Unmesh Desai AM: Dr Jameel, the criteria for vaccination in the UK has been to protect the NHS. Other countries have prioritised younger people to support the economy. Is that strategy working? Is it the right one? The reason I am asking this question is that it is important that Londoners know and understand the scientific and medical evidence upon which we are working.