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• 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?

• 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.

• 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: 2003/0007
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 29 January 2003

What impact will the Bain Review have in the delivery of the fire service in London? .

• Reference: 2003/0023
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 29 January 2003

What Community Fire Safety initiatives are happening in Tower Hamlets? .

• Reference: 2003/0024
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 29 January 2003

What Community Fire Safety initiatives are happening in Barking and Dagenham? .

• Reference: 2003/0025
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 29 January 2003

What Community Fire Safety initiatives are happening in City of London? .

• Reference: 2003/0026
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 29 January 2003

What Community Fire Safety initiatives are happening in Newham? .

• Reference: 2003/0036
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 29 January 2003

What is the London Fire Service doing to replace its outdated radio, control and command facilities? .

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 29 January 2003

We intend that the impact of the Bain Review, the modernisation agenda, would be very far-reaching in London. It would be about being able to broaden the services we provide to cover a wider variety of dangers and risks in London. It would be about us prioritising prevention work and reduction of fires and fires and deaths and other injuries. It would be about us applying the staff and the other resources we've got much more effectively than we do at the moment. The Fire Service at the moment basically is operating on a 50-year-old resource allocation mechanism, that tell...