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• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 07 September 2011

Commissioner, can I say on behalf of my constituents how grateful we were to firefighters who attended at Clapham Junction in Battersea. Indeed, yesterday, Jane Ellison, the Member of Parliament for Battersea, was visiting the Battersea firefighters at the station. I would have been there too had I not been here on Transport Committee duties. My question is first of all to the Chairman. Do you share my impatience and frustration at Navin Shah's question to you about the budget and the potential budget of LFEPA, when it is so skilfully managed by Councillor Maurice Heaster from Wandsworth and the...

• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 07 September 2011

After all we hear that emergency services are constantly under attack, from nurses, doctors, fire workers, police, all of this going on, it is a technical question. Outside of the appliances that the London Fire Brigade has, which are static in the sense they rely upon groundwater resource for the purpose of their functioning, how many units are there in London that are mobile water dispensers or water fighters in the sense they carry their own water supply with them?

• Reference: 2010/0101-1
• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 08 September 2010

In light of the Government project 'Fire Futures' and the Mayor's document 'Investing For Recovery -A New Deal For London', what strategic-level changes would you like to see?

• Reference: 2009/0168-1
• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Will the new Regional Control Centre at Merton be ready in time for the Olympics, and if not what contingency plans need to be, and are, in place?

• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Again, it is relating to the London Plan and forward planning across London. In my own borough and council of Barking and Dagenham there is the intention of between 15,000 and 25,000 new houses going up. This, in a sense, with the further request for more housing, both social and council, in the Ford area, in the marshes, would almost constitute a new ward being developed. Is there a possibility of future plans to upgrade the Dagenham Fire Station there on the grounds that, with this new development going forward between the next three and ten years, that there will...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 03 December 2008

If I heard right, you, Chair, Mr Coleman, you said that that callout would have cost over £200?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 03 December 2008

This is a question for the Chairman. I hope, Mr Chairman, you will not be taking any lessons on budgeting from the former Leader of Harrow Council, Mr Shah when, as I understand it, the budgets in Harrow got into some serious disarray in the period of 2005/06 and so, surely you need some wiser counsel.

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 03 December 2008

I wonder if the Chairman - presumably it is for the Chairman this one - could bring us up to speed a bit more on the Heritage Protection Bill and the ramifications of it for the Fire Brigade and fire stations because, as I understand it, when some places are listed it is possible to get government grants to bring them up to the standard required or, indeed, to renovate them, but in other cases it is not. So what is the situation with fire stations which must produce a great problem for LFEPA.

• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 03 December 2008

After a month into Mayor Boris' election result here as the Mayor of London, he visited Barking and Dagenham. He actually spent some time at the, what I would consider to be, rather dilapidated fire station of East Dagenham. Rumours are going round - I would like to have these clarified if I can - whether it was going to be either upgraded or the station was to be demolished and replaced with a new station. Which of these two would be correct?