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• Reference: 2015/3980
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 02 December 2015

Since 2009/10, the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority has had to make cuts of £105.8 million and a further £50 million has been taken from the LFEPA reserves. Are you confident that in light of these and future budget cuts, the London Fire Brigade will continue to be fit for purpose and can ensure the safety of Londoners?

• Reference: 2015/3984
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 02 December 2015

How has the closure of Westminster fire station impacted attendance times in the City of Westminster?

• Reference: 2015/3985
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 02 December 2015

How has the closure of Knightsbridge fire station impacted attendance times in the City of Westminster?

• Reference: 2015/3986
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 02 December 2015

How has the closure of Knightsbridge fire station impacted attendance times in the borough of Kensington and Chelsea?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 02 December 2015

Mayor John Biggs AM: Thank you very much for your earlier answers. I obviously have a parochial interest as the Assembly Member for East London. Particularly Newham but also Tower Hamlets have been adversely affected by the closure of fire stations and the loss of appliances. In your current proposals, potentially we lose another three appliances in Poplar, Plaistow and Stratford and a fourth nearby in Shoreditch. Can you tell us what the cumulative impact would be on residents in my constituency in East London and whether there would be more areas that will fall outside the six-minute response time...

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 02 December 2015

Andrew Dismore AM: First of all, Gareth, I am pleased that you welcome that we have put forward an alternative budget and I look forward to debating that with you this afternoon. I hope that it will mean we can save Kentish Town’s pump, which is in the mix of the 13 fire engines. After the Belsize and Clerkenwell closures in the LSP5 round, Camden has taken more than its fair share of cuts, as the attendance figures show. What I really want to do, though, is to concentrate on the future Sixth London Safety Plan (LSP6). From Camden’s point...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 02 December 2015

Valerie Shawcross CBE AM: You mentioned earlier, Commissioner, collaboration with other emergency services and so I just wanted to ask both of you about the co-responding model. I have seen it operate successfully in rural areas with retained firefighters, but of course the dynamics of serving a very sparse rural community are very different from London. What is your view on whether or not co-responding is an appropriate model for London at all, both of you?

• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 02 December 2015

Tom Copley AM: As you know, Commissioner, I went down to the operation centre last week to discuss the new mobilising system with staff and there have been a number of issues with the system. I wonder if you could provide us with an update on the Vision system.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 09 December 2014

Yes, thank you, Chair. I have a couple of questions for the Commissioner and for the Mayor. It is moving away; it is still on transparency but it is moving away from the topic raised by my colleague. Roger Evans AM (Chair): Not too far. Jennette Arnold OBE AM (Deputy Chair): Not too far but it is just to do with transparency. My question is in terms of transparency, in terms of what the MPS says and what the MPS does. I think that is really a good link. I want to ask the Commissioner in terms of what the...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 09 December 2014

My first set of questions are actually for the Commissioner, if I may, and I have some for the Mayor following that. Thank you for the comments about the Autumn Statement and the difficulties financially that the police are going to have in the future. A couple of weeks ago the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime talked about drastic and dangerous police cuts which will have to happen. You have talked, I believe, today, and I have certainly had reports from ITN, that it would be difficult to maintain the 32,000 police officers on an ongoing basis. Could I...