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• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Bob Neill (AM): I am sure that is right. It is a shame that GOL are not here so that we could have heard it be said. Brian Coleman (Chair): Indeed, we wish Mr Kowalczyk was here, so we could pay tribute to him this morning, but unfortunately he is not. I am sure, however, his spies are in the audience somewhere. Can I just ask, Mr Mayer, are you saying we need, in your professional opinion as an officer ' or 'mere bureaucrat,' as you describe yourself ' that we need an office of emergency planning in London?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

An important part of what we want to try to achieve is to reassure Londoners that proper procedures are in place. What reassurance is there? What can I say to my constituency as to who is in charge at the moment for planning a) for resilience, b) for recovery? Secondly, who is providing the money for those, and where is it going?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Is that the answer to all the questions? The whole lot? At the moment, we have a scenario where the boroughs have some emergency planning, civil defence, old-fashioned-type powers. LFEPA has some powers. The other emergency services have a smattering of powers. Are you satisfied, Mr Mayer, that we have an accountable form of joining those together, or do we have a reassurance gap, as far as London is concerned? It may be being done by Nick Raynsford, but how do we assure Londoners that it is being'?

• Reference: 2003/0345
• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

How much is the firefighters pay settlement going to cost LFEPA and how is it to be funded? .

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

Am I right in thinking that the full-year cost of the settlement, including pension contributions, works out to about £10.6 million per year?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

Is the pay and prices reserves sufficient to meet an award above 4%?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

I think the gap is about £1.9 million is it? I wondered what steps you have taken to try to bridge that. Have you sought transitional funding from the Government for example?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

It was made very clear by the Government, at the time of the settlement, that the settlement would be funded by modernisation. Are there enough modernisation savings to be had in the London Fire Brigade to fund the pay settlement? If not, who is going to make up the balance?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

So how much of the settlement is going to fall upon the Council Tax payer?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

Are you concerned that your stance on this undermines the stance of the Deputy Prime Minister when he said the settlement would be funded entirely from modernisation savings?