• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 10 February 2022

The LFB is currently using its reserves in terms of balancing its budgets. That cannot be a good thing and I know it is not for the long term and why you have to do it, but you have to do it -. Does it not put additional pressures on you and your transformational process and work to deliver the better services that Londoners need?

• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 10 February 2022

Since the first London Safety Plan (LSP) was published in 2004, the number of incidents that the LFB responds to, including fires, has fallen. In terms of transformation and the changes that has had on the LFB itself and the way it works, how do you see the number and types of incidents changing in the coming years and how will it affect the way that the LFB responds and is staffed?

• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 10 February 2022

Commissioner, this question is to you. It is about the collaboration of the LFB with the other blue-light services and I want to congratulate you particularly on how you supported the London Ambulance Service (LAS) in the pandemic. With the LFB stepping up to meet the LAS, responding to the extreme weather events and dealing with the building safety crisis, despite the fact of having lost 1,100 officers since 2010, how has this impacted on the day-to-day operations of the LFB?

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 10 February 2022

Deputy Mayor, how do you anticipate the refreshed review by Lord [Toby] Harris into London’s preparedness for a terrorist attack will impact upon the work of the LFB?

• Question by: Sem Moema
• Meeting date: 10 February 2022

Sem Moema AM: Thank you, Chair, I will do my best. I am really pleased to see the work that the LFB does with local authorities and civil servants. I have seen your work helping Hackney identify buildings at risk and to put in place those mitigations. The Grenfell incident had a huge impact and has really changed the way in which the LFB has had to work. I just wonder that, following [the Rt Hon] Michael Gove’s [MP, Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities] on building safety and remediation around levelling up, how you think that...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 10 February 2022

In terms of the challenges faced by the LFB in the future, severe weather is having an impact, and in terms of flooding in particular, does the LFB have the equipment it needs and the right level of resource to respond to flooding in London now and in the future?

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

Sakina Sheikh AM: Good morning, Fiona and Andy, it is great to have you join us. It is so important that you have both already mentioned the Grenfell tragedy, a nightmare for many, but a reality for the residents who are still waiting for justice. It is a pertinent conversation to frame the rest of the discussion today about building safety. I wanted to start off by asking you, Fiona, specifically, what fire safety measures have been introduced into the planning system and how are they improving safety for Londoners?

• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 20 January 2022

Caroline Russell AM: Thank you, Chair. Just briefly, I want to back up the points that Assembly Member Duvall has made with my own words. In the midst of all this mess, it would be good if at least someone were to hold themselves to account in a way that is consistent with at least one of the Nolan Principles of Public Life. For this to be a Member of the Assembly would do us all credit. Do you agree, Mr Mayor?

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 20 January 2022

Unmesh Desai AM: Mr Mayor, the Government was defeated in the House of Lords by an amendment calling for the introduction of misogyny as a hate crime. Sadly, since then, we have heard the Deputy Prime Minister say that the Government plans to vote down this amendment in the House of Commons. Are you surprised that the Government and the Prime Minister continue to be so set against the introduction of this measure to better protect women? A yes or no answer will suffice. What more can you do as Mayor to support this particular cause?

• Question by: Elly Baker
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

Elly Baker AM: Thank you, Chair. Thanks, Mr Mayor, for your updates around Omicron and TfL funding. I would like to ask about the interaction of these two crucial things. As we know, TfL is uniquely dependent on fares income since the removal of the operating grant. Can you provide us with an update on Tube and bus ridership since the rise of Omicron, and how this might impact on TfL’s income?