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  • Approach of Chairman of LFEPA (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 11 November 2009
    Occasionally we have a lively exchange but let us keep to matters of professional interest here. What insights did the report give you when it described you as being too confrontational? What did you take away from that?

  • Budget Savings (Supplementary) [6]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 03 December 2008
    I am not down to speak but I am just intrigued how you reconcile your rather bombastic style as Chair with the need for you to preside over a fire authority which is multi-party and which no party will have a majority and, therefore, you need to rule through a consensus? Do you lie awake at night thinking about this? I am sure you do not.

  • Questions to Simon Fletcher, Chief of Staff to the Mayor (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 12 June 2002
    My final question is about the quality of advice that the Mayor gets. I know this has been probed a little bit earlier, but I think we all know that, yourself excluded, the Mayor's advisors include a range of people who have political baggage behind them. How do you ensure that the Mayor gets good advice, notwithstanding thatadvisors may carry with them prejudices that help to inform their advice?

  • Questions to Simon Fletcher, Chief of Staff to the Mayor (Supplementary) [26]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 12 June 2002
    I think, to all intents and purposes, your average Londoner would assume that you are, with great respect to my colleague the Deputy Mayor, effectively a deputy mayor of London. Do you imagine there could be circumstances where a different Simon Fletcher or a different mayor might employ someone in your position who would have a more public persona and would, for example, be interviewed and speak on behalf of the Mayor to TV cameras?

  • Questions to Simon Fletcher, Chief of Staff to the Mayor (Supplementary) [27]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 12 June 2002
    You are in an interesting position in British politics. I think you are almost uniquely a heartbeat away from redundancy, in your position. It's a nice sound bite.

  • Questions to Simon Fletcher, Chief of Staff to the Mayor (Supplementary) [28]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 12 June 2002
    Do you envisage following up an earlier line of questioning that you might resign from your position in order to enable you to campaign for the Mayor's re-election?

  • Questions to Simon Fletcher, Chief of Staff to the Mayor (Supplementary) [35]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 12 June 2002
    There is a well established civil service culture in the UK apparently which is'

  • Questions to Simon Fletcher, Chief of Staff to the Mayor (Supplementary) [79]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 12 June 2002
    Clearly you are not ruling out the possibility that you might resign in order to assist his campaign for re-election?