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• Reference: 2010/0103-1
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 08 September 2010

What benefits do the 12:12 shift pattern proposals bring to the fire service and Londoners?'

• Reference: 2009/0163-1
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Will you please explain what service improvements, efficiencies and other ancillary benefits we may expect if the 12:12 shift-pattern for firefighters is implemented?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Chairman, an excellent authority will have an excellent budget setting process. It was somewhat confused last year, I felt, and I wondered if you had any plans to streamline and improve the budget setting process and if perhaps you would learn any lessons from the previous performance of London boroughs, particularly boroughs in north west London?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Thank you, Commissioner. That sounds like a very reasonable proposal from Londoners' point of view. Why do you think the Fire Brigades Union has objected to it?

• Reference: 2008/0047-1
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 03 December 2008

What plans are there for modernising London fire stations to ensure they are fit for purpose?

• Reference: 2002/0347-1
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Bearing in mind that much of your planned development in the Thames Gateway will be on a flood plain, what discussions have you had with the insurance industry to ensure that they are willing to offer cover to properties in this area? .

• Reference: 2002/0348-1
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

What work is being done to ensure that London's drainage system is able to cope with the additional properties that you wish to see constructed across the capital? .

• Reference: 2002/0349-1
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

It is recommended that essential civil infrastructure is not constructed in areas where there is a risk of flooding . Are you confident that the new development planned for the Thames Gateway can be supported by sufficent local hospitals, ambulance stations, fire stations and police stations? .

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Is the Mayor's policy of lengthening the red phases on traffic lights all over London a healthy thing to do or not?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

On the same line of questioning, on this cross-cutting theme, do you not think that an approach which increases the emissions from idling car engines increases stress, increases road rage and slows down emergency vehicles, such as ambulances responding to incidents, might actually be harmful to the health of Londoners, despite the assertions of biased members of the Green Party.