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• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 07 September 2011

Mr Chairman, Commissioner, I wanted to also thank and congratulate you for your sterling work over the last few weeks alongside the officers of the MPS. It was a fantastic joint operation dealing with very difficult circumstances. I know and was pleased that you mentioned that the coordination between the two services was exceptional and saved a lot of lives as a result. I also wanted to offer my congratulations for, frankly, another magnificent year of performance both in terms of output and budget. You seem to be achieving year-on-year, that magic equation of doing better for less, consistently. I...

• Reference: 2010/0102-1
• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 08 September 2010

Over the last two years London's Fire Service has significantly improved performance. What measures will you take to ensure that performance levels remain high in the face of financial uncertainty?

• Reference: 2009/0170-1
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

What provision has the Brigade made for emergency fire cover in the case of industrial dispute, given the removal of military support by Government?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

I wanted to welcome and congratulate you for your new approach to public consultation. As somebody who, on the other side of the fence as a councillor, was completely taken by surprise during the closure of the Manchester Street and Manchester Square Fire Station, by the then Labour controlled Authority, it comes pretty ill to hear them now complaining about your very open and transparent approach towards your future plans. So I welcome that. I wanted to ask you, in terms of priorities, about the Olympics and what work you will be doing around cost and finance as you approach...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 03 December 2008

This is a question for the Commissioner. I do not know if you are aware of this, Commissioner, but on 25 November a Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament, one Lynne Featherstone, made a 999 call to the Fire Brigade, in which she said there was a terrible noise coming from the boilers in her basement, it sounded a bit like a pneumatic drill but worse. She thought something was going to blow up. The Fire Brigade turned up, punctually, rapidly as it usually does in matters of great emergencies and they discovered that it was an airlock in the central...