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• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 08 February 2018

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Thank you very much. I want to pick up some issues around resilience today. Recommendation 47 in the Lord Harris review stated that the emergency medical response pilot between the LFB and the [London] Ambulance Service (LAS), which is in a number of boroughs, should “be expanded to all London boroughs as quickly as training resources allow”. However, in the Mayor’s One Year On response to that report [ Harris Review into London’s Preparedness to Respond to a Major Terrorist Incident: Progress Report – One Year On , 2017], he says the process has been delayed...

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 29 January 2003

: With the recent ricin incident in Wood Green, my understanding is that - I'm not sure about the local authority - but the police commander and the Chair of primary health trust, both had a delay of something like 24 hours after the incident before they were even informed of what was happening. My question is at what point in that was the Fire Service aware?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 29 January 2003

Well, was that 24 hours after it was first announced?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 29 January 2003

I understand, okay. Because I understood there was a confusion with an intervention from Downing Street. I just want to be assured that there was no confusion over this, because the people in Haringey were obviously anxious when they heard about it. But that was after this confusion had been solved.