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• Reference: 2012/0037-2
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 19 July 2012

Commissioner, when were the Metropolitan Police Service first aware of problems with the private security firm Group 4 Security (G4S) and their ability to deliver their promised security complement?

• Reference: 2012/0040-2
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 19 July 2012

Chair, it is just a quick question, and it goes back I think to where Steve [O'Connell] started. Commissioner, what I just wanted to raise with you was, as well as the Olympics, and I welcome the assurances that you have given from where you are at the moment, it is summer time, even though it is so wet out there, and during this time there would normally be contingency plans for events that happen, certainly in some boroughs that I am familiar with, over that summer period. You would normally, I know in the boroughs I represent, they would...

• Reference: 2012/0041-2
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 19 July 2012

A question to the Commissioner. Just earlier on, and I apologise for arriving late, but I heard you, in terms of you answering the questions on the milestones. I want to take you back to the Olympic security issue. Of course in July when they indicated they could not fulfil the contract, that is quite a clear milestone. You mentioned before in the autumn of 2011 the jump from 3,000 odd to 10,000.

• Reference: 2012/0043-2
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 19 July 2012

Can we just look at learning lessons and really I suppose the aspect of privatisation, which is another side of policing activities in terms of what has happened with some of your neighbouring services. I really have two questions to you both, but if I can begin with the Commissioner. On a webcast on 21 June, I think you have a fairly fixed view about privatisation, about the limits of it, where to put it within the police activities and where not. Do you describe core activities ... you do not really see privatisation doing patrolling, issues of police investigations...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

This is a very sensitive issue as well I think, but I think many of us understand that many firefighters have work outside of fire fighting, and that providing they are fit for work and able to do the job properly that should not be a problem in any shape or form. Is that an issue in relation to the shift pattern changes?

• Reference: 2006/0267-1
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Can you explain why the Authority is contemplating spending large amounts of public money installing reclining chairs in fire stations when beds are already provided for staff?

• Reference: 2003/0326
• Question by: Diana Johnson
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

What initiatives does LFEPA have in place for protecting the vulnerable in society, for instance pensioners who are most at risk from fire, and what initiatives are in place for working with young people to improve community safety? .

• Reference: 2003/0327
• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

I understand a lot of the fire brigade's work involves rescuing people in lifts. Do you have any proposals to reduce the number of lift incidents that the fire brigade have to attend? .

• Reference: 2003/0328
• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

What work is LFEPA doing to help reduce the number of deaths in London through heart attacks? .

• Reference: 2003/0329
• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

Hackney has been identified as a priority for the Arson Reduction Team. Can you describe what your objectives are, what this work will involve in Hackney and what criteria you will use to measure its success? .