The London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority will be abolished this year, with responsibility for the London Fire Brigade being brought into City Hall.
- Will the Mayor’s budget provide London’s fire service with the funding it needs, even with an increase in council tax?
- How will it afford the specialist equipment it plans to buy following the Grenfell Tower fire?
In the last of three meetings to examine the Mayor’s 2018/19 budget, the London Assembly Budget and Performance Committee[1] will tomorrow put these questions to:
Panel: from 2:00pm to approximately 3:30pm
- Fiona Twycross AM, Chair, LFEPA
- Dany Cotton QFSM, Commissioner, LFEPA
- Sue Budden, Director of Finance and Contractual Services, LFEPA
- David Gallie, Assistant Director, Group Finance, GLA
The meeting will take place on Thursday, 4 January from 2.00pm 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 LIVE via webcast or YouTube
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Notes to editors
- The key responsibility of the Budget and Performance Committee is its annual scrutiny of the Mayor’s budget proposals for the next financial year. This involves detailed examination of the Mayor’s plans for spending his budget to help ensure taxpayers’ money is spent appropriately and effectively.
- The Mayor’s Budget
- Pre-Budget report
- Gareth Bacon AM, Chairman of the Budget & Performance Committee is available for interview. See contact details below.
- 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 Sonia Labboun on 020 7983 5769. 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.