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• Reference: 2011/0085-1
• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 07 September 2011

In light of recent events in London, how is the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority continuing to support the excellent LIFE scheme?

• Reference: 2010/0099-1
• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 08 September 2010

What is your vision for the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA), with specific regard to 'Fire Futures' which was commissioned by the Minister?

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 08 September 2010

Chairman, I do not imagine anyone would pretend that you have had the best of relationships with the FBU but there are a number of people on LFEPA who have much closer links with the unions. Do you know of any attempts that they have made to defend the position that was unanimously voted on to union colleagues, or friends that they may have in the unions, to take some of the heat out of this particular issue and ensure that London is protected without a strike?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 08 September 2010

Could I ask particularly about the efficiency in saving lives, which is something I welcome, as the Chairman said. What is the view of the two of you on what the Government should be doing about much more rigorous and widespread use of sprinklers, for example? The other thing I wanted to ask you about is timber framed buildings, which has been another bone of contention in the whole area in recent years. What are your views on that?

• Reference: 2002/0273-1
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

The Draft Municipal Waste Strategy sets out a desire to create a single waste disposal authority for London. Bearing in mind many boroughs are already engaged in long-term waste contracts, how do you intend to create this single authority and how will it work? .

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

I know Mr Duffy is keen to interfere all he can in boroughs. Some of us can't keep him out of our boroughs. Whether or not a borough has wheelie bins I would say is a matter for the borough council, and not for anybody else. Would he accept a scheme that we're about to introduce in Barnet, which is where in the past the Labour administration, if somebody phoned up for a second bin on the grounds that they needed one, just delivered it, our administration tends to send a waste minimisation officer round for advice on why they...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

John - both you and Nicky, as the Mayor's Waste Advisor, have told us at the Environment Committee, that the use of wheeled bins by boroughs actually reduces the amount of recycling. Now, from the borough's point of view, wheeled bins are useful because it reduces their cost of collection, and from the householder's point of view, they're convenient. So, are you actually planning, as a part of your approach to waste, to be reducing wheeled bins in London, or are you going to accept them as a reality?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

You say you would hesitate if a new wheeled bin scheme was proposed. What form of activity would that hesitation take?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Well, either you think that wheeled bins are a bad thing and you're going to do something about it, or you're going to use them in a positive way, to help to improve people's recycling rates. I can think of several ways that you might actually modify a bin scheme to do that.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Can you envisage yourself turning down a contract because of the size of wheeled bins?