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London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority
AbbreviationLFEPA
PredecessorLondon Fire and Civil Defence Authority
SuccessorLondon Fire Commissioner
Formation3 July 2000
FounderGreater London Authority Act 1999
Dissolved1 April 2018
TypeFire authority
Legal statusFunctional body
PurposeMake key decisions on London Fire Brigade strategy, policy and budget
HeadquartersLondon Fire Brigade
Location
  • Union Street, Southwark, SE1 0LL
Region served
London
Membership17 appointed members
Chair
Parent organisation
Greater London Authority
WebsiteLFEPA

The London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) was a functional body of the Greater London Authority (GLA), established under the Greater London Authority Act 1999. Its principal purpose was to run the London Fire Brigade. The 17 members of LFEPA were appointed annually by the Mayor of London. Eight were nominated from the London Assembly, seven from the London boroughs and two were Mayoral appointees. It replaced the London Fire and Civil Defence Authority, on 3 July 2000. Under the Policing and Crime Act 2017, LFEPA was abolished in April 2018 and replaced with the London Fire Commissioner.

History

Creation

The London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority was created with the Greater London Authority, consisting of the Mayor of London and London Assembly, as part of the Greater London Authority Act 1999. It replaced the London Fire and Civil Defence Authority, on 3 July 2000 as the governance of the London Fire Brigade.

2007 diversity dispute

In June 2007 the Labour Mayor, Ken Livingstone, asked the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives to reconsider their nominations for members of the authority from the assembly and the borough councils.[1] Livingstone said "It is unacceptable that when there are 1,861 councillors in London, of which 555 are women and 293 from black, Asian and ethnic minority groups, all seven Conservative nominees are white and include only one woman, and all three Liberal Democrat nominees are white men."[2] The Evening Standard reported that the mayor's political opponents were likely to seek a High Court injunction to reverse the decision.[citation needed] A compromise was eventually reached whereby the Mayor replaced one of the male Conservative London Assembly Members, Bob Blackman, with Angie Bray and appointed the London Councils' nominations on a temporary basis until August.[3] These appointments were extended to June 2008.

2013 fire station closure dispute

In January 2013 the authority was asked to approve a public consultation on the closure of 12 fire stations as part of the fifth London Safety Plan. The authority voted against any future consultation on station closures, appliance reductions or job losses.[4] The London Mayor, Boris Johnson, then used his power to directed the authority to consult the public. In February, the authority voted to ignore the direction of the mayor.[5] The Conservative Party formed a minority on the authority and were outvoted by the Labour, Liberal Democrat and Green Party members.[6] Advice to the authority showed that it had no legal ability to ignore the mayor's instructions. The authority voted to follow the mayoral direction on 12 September 2013.[7] 10 fire stations closed in January 2014.[8]

Replacement

The LFEPA was abolished in April 2018 and replaced with the London Fire Commissioner and the Fire, Resilience and Emergency Planning Committee, a new governance arrangement within the Greater London Authority.[9]

Members

The 17 members of LFEPA were appointed annually by the Mayor of London. From 2000 to 2008, nine were nominated by the London Assembly and eight by the London borough councils. This was amended by section 25 of the Greater London Authority Act 2007 which changed the composition to eight London Assembly nominations, seven from the London borough councils and two direct appointments by the mayor.

Appointments to the authority were as follows:[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28]

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Member Party Appointment 00/01 01/02 02/03 03/04 04/05 05/06 06/07 07/08 08/09 09/10 10/11 11/12 12/13 13/14 14/15 15/16 16/17 17/18
Cllr Liaquat Ali MBE, JP Labour Borough Member Vice-Chair Member
Cllr Peter Forrest Conservative Borough Member
Cllr Anne Gallop Labour Borough Member
Cllr Maurice Heaster OBE Conservative Borough/Mayoral [a] Member
Cllr Janice Long Labour Borough Member
Cllr Philip Portwood Labour Borough Member
Cllr Roy Shaw Labour Borough Vice-Chair Member
Cllr Toby Simon Labour Borough Member
Louise Bloom AM Liberal Democrat Assembly Member
Cllr Brian Coleman AM Conservative Assembly Member Vice-Chair Chair
Lynne Featherstone AM Liberal Democrat Assembly Member
Samantha Heath AM Labour Assembly Member
Jenny Jones AM Green Assembly Member
Bob Neill AM Conservative Assembly Member
Eric Ollerenshaw AM Conservative Assembly Member
Trevor Phillips AM Labour Assembly Member
Val Shawcross CBE AM Labour Assembly Chair Member Member Member
Cllr Roger Evans AM Conservative Assembly Member
Angie Bray AM Conservative Assembly Member Member
Cllr John Whelan Conservative Borough Member
Cllr Pauline Morrison Labour Borough Member Member
Cllr Colin Tandy Conservative Borough Member Vice-Chair Member Member
Mike Tuffrey AM Liberal Democrat Assembly Member Member
John Biggs AM Labour Assembly Member
Noel Lynch AM Green Assembly Member
Murad Qureshi AM Labour Assembly Member
Peter Hulme-Cross AM UKIP Assembly Member
Bob Blackman AM Conservative Assembly Member
Darren Johnson AM Green Assembly Member
Cllr Cameron Geddes Labour Borough Member
Geoff Pope AM Liberal Democrat Assembly Member
Cllr Ed Butcher Liberal Democrats Borough Member
Cllr Betty Evans-Jacas Labour/Conservative[b] Borough Member
Cllr Rebekah Gilbert Conservative Borough Member
Cllr Navin Shah AM Labour Assembly Member Vice-Chair Member Vice-Chair Member
Cllr Bertha Joseph Conservative Borough Member
Caroline Pidgeon AM Liberal Democrats Assembly Member
Ald Simon Walsh N/A Mayoral Member
Cllr Colin Aherne Labour Borough Member
David Cartwright QFSM Conservative Mayoral Member
Cllr Tony Arbour JP, AM Conservative Assembly Member
Cllr Richard Tracey AM Conservative Assembly Vice-Chair
Cllr Crada Onuegbu Labour Borough Member
Cllr Terry Stacy MBE JP Labour Borough Member
Cllr Mike Fisher Conservative Borough Member
Cllr Gareth Bacon AM Conservative Assembly Member Chair Member
Cllr Susan Hall Conservative Borough/Assembly[c] Member
James Cleverly AM Conservative Assembly Chair
Cllr Stephen Knight AM Liberal Democrats Assembly Member
Andrew Dismore AM Labour Assembly Member Member
Dr Fiona Twycross AM Labour Assembly Member Vice-Chair Chair
Peter Truesdale Liberal Democrats Borough Member
Cllr Sarah Hayward Labour Borough Member
Cllr Jack Hopkins Labour Borough Member
Cllr Martin Whelton Labour Borough Member
Andrew Boff AM Conservative Assembly Member
Tom Copley AM Labour Assembly Member
Cllr Oonagh Moulton Conservative Borough Member
Cllr Fiona Colley Labour Borough Member
Cllr Leonie Cooper AM Labour Assembly Member
Cllr Emma Dent Coad Labour Mayoral Member[d]
Cllr Florence Eshalomi Labour Assembly Member
Cllr Mehbood Khan Labour Mayoral Member
David Kurten AM UKIP Assembly Member
Cllr Caroline Russell AM Green Assembly Member
Cllr Amy Whitelock Gibbs Labour Borough Member
Unmesh Desai AM Labour Assembly Member
Cllr Rachel Blake Labour Mayoral Member[e]

Notes

  1. ^ Maurice Heaster switched from a borough to a mayoral nominee on the authority in 2008.
  2. ^ Betty Evans-Jacas switched from Labour to Conservative in October 2009.
  3. ^ Susan Hall became a member of the London Assembly in 2017 and switched from a borough to an assembly nominee on the authority on 20 June 2017.
  4. ^ Emma Dent Coad became MP for Kensington on 8 June 2017 and resigned from the authority on 22 June 2017.
  5. ^ Rachel Blake was appointed to the authority on 1 October 2017.

References

  1. ^ Vorster, Gareth (22 June 2007). "Equal Opportunities Commission to check London Mayor Ken Livingstone's decision to reject London Fire Authority appointments". Personnel Today. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  2. ^ "Mayor rejects 'completely unrepresentative' fire authority nominations". Greater London Authority. 15 June 2007. Archived from the original on 6 August 2007. Retrieved 18 June 2007.
  3. ^ "LFEPA Nominations Go-Ahead | MayorWatch®". Archived from the original on 8 February 2008.
  4. ^ "London fire station closure plans rejected in vote". BBC News. 21 January 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  5. ^ "London fire closure plans: Authority votes against mayor". BBC News. 11 February 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  6. ^ "Southwark Fire Station closure plan: LFEPA defies Boris's order". London SE1. Bankside Press Ltd. 11 February 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  7. ^ "Southwark Fire Station could shut by January". London SE1. Bankside Press Ltd. 13 September 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  8. ^ "Protest as 10 London fire stations shut down". BBC News. 9 January 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  9. ^ "Governance - London Fire Commissioner". www.london-fire.gov.uk.
  10. ^ "Members' Allowances" (PDF). London Fire Brigade. 19 July 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 November 2005. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  11. ^ "Members' Allowances" (PDF). London Fire Brigade. 25 July 2002. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
  12. ^ "Statement of accounts 2001/2002" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 August 2003. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  13. ^ "Statement of accounts 2002/2003" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 October 2007. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  14. ^ "Statement of accounts 2003/2004" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 October 2007. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  15. ^ "Statement of accounts 2004/2005" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 October 2007. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  16. ^ "Statement of accounts 2005/2006" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 October 2007. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  17. ^ "Statement of accounts 2006/2007" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 October 2007. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  18. ^ "Members of the Authority". London Fire Brigade. Archived from the original on 10 October 2008. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  19. ^ "Statement of accounts 2009/2010" (PDF). London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 November 2011. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  20. ^ "Statement of accounts 2010/2011" (PDF). London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  21. ^ "Members of the Authority". London Fire Brigade. Archived from the original on 18 November 2010. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  22. ^ "Statement of accounts 2011/2012" (PDF). London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 Jan 2013. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  23. ^ "Statement of accounts 2012/2013" (PDF). London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
  24. ^ "Statement of accounts 2013/2014" (PDF). London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 May 2015. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
  25. ^ "Statement of accounts 2014/2015" (PDF). London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
  26. ^ "Statement of accounts 2015/2016" (PDF). London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
  27. ^ "Statement of accounts 2016/2017" (PDF). London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
  28. ^ "Statement of accounts 2017/2018" (PDF). London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
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