The London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) has been abolished, and a statutory London Fire Commissioner (LFC) established. The new legislation has given the Mayor the power to establish a new Deputy Mayor for Fire and obliged the London Assembly to establish a new scrutiny committee.
The London Assembly Fire, Resilience and Emergency Planning Committee meets for the first time tomorrow. The guests are:
- Dr Fiona Twycross AM, Deputy Mayor for Fire and Resilience
- Dany Cotton QFSM, London Fire Commissioner
Topics to be discussed include:
- Fire safety in tall buildings post Grenfell
- LFB engagement with the Hackitt Review
- New governance arrangements
- impact of new governance arrangements
- priorities for the next 12 months
- Headline performance
- Sickness absence rates target
- recruitment challenges
- Resilience and emergency planning
- Manchester Arena attack mistakes
- cyber defence system
The meeting will take place on Thursday, 17 May from 2:30pm in The Chamber at City Hall (The Queen’s Walk, London SE1).
Media and members of the public are invited to attend.
The meeting can also be viewed via webcast.
Follow us @LondonAssembly and take part in the discussion using #AssemblyFire
Notes to editors
- Agenda Papers
- Susan Hall AM, Chairman of the Fire, Resilience and Emergency Planning Committee, is available for interview – see contact details below.
- Fire, Resilience and Emergency Planning Committee
- As well as investigating issues that matter to Londoners, the London Assembly acts as a check and a balance on the Mayor.
For media enquiries, please contact Alison Bell on 020 7983 4228. For out of hours media enquiries, call 020 7983 4000 and ask for the London Assembly duty press officer. Non-media enquiries should be directed to the Public Liaison Unit on 020 7983 4100.