Questions to the Mayor of London – answered at on 17 January 2019.
What work have you and the London Resilience Forum done on the risks to resilience posed by arm’s length companies set up by councils to manage certain services?
The LRF continues to take part in the national assurance mechanisms that review the collective assurance of the partnership against their ability to support pan London Multi-Agency responses.
It is the responsibility of individual organisations as defined within the Civil Contingencies Act to be able to maintain their statutory and critical services regardless if the provision of the service is outsourced through their business continuity arrangements.
The Local Authorities’ Panel is represented at the Local Resilience Forum. It has carried out its own assurance process to satisfy itself of the arrangements for some years of the borough’s individual resilience plans and is putting in place a more rigorous assurance process.