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• Reference: 2015/2495
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 08 September 2015

Is it possible to expand Heathrow Airport without having a negative effect on London's environment and the health of Londoners?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 08 September 2015

Valerie Shawcross CBE AM: Thank you, Sir Howard. I am just looking at the table on NPV and social benefits on page 147 [of the Airports Commission’s final report]. Without being economists, we are trying to grapple with the issue of calculating the benefits and costs and the negative and positive aspects of the proposal. While you say Gatwick is a feasible proposal, you are saying the economic benefits would be considerably smaller than Heathrow. If you look at the bottom line of the calculations you have done - and I accept there are a lot of variables in here...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 08 September 2015

Valerie Shawcross CBE AM: I just wanted to come in, if I may, Sir Howard, with a quick reaction to that comment. You have encapsulated a problem but you have it the wrong way around. You have said the problem is that TfL is trying to talk about growth that is not attributable to Heathrow. The problem is the other way around. Your projections are not taking account of the fact that all of those schemes that you have referred to there and that you are taking for granted will happen, like Crossrail 2, are actually being driven by the...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 05 November 2014

Valerie Shawcross CBE AM: Good morning. Just on a very specific issue, I was quite alarmed to see that the LFB may well have to pick up some of the bill for the additional pension costs for retained firefighters. I know this is a complex issue and it relates to an employment tribunal and I think we all agree that retained firefighters deserve a fair deal. However, it seems to me that the idea that the LFB ought to be paying the back pensions of retained firefighters when the London Fire Authority has never employed any retained firefighters, ever, does...

• Reference: 2013/4513
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 04 December 2013

Which organisations have contacted the London Fire Brigade about purchasing the Southwark Fire Station site?

• Reference: 2013/4523
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 04 December 2013

What date will Southwark Fire Station close and how will you be informing residents of their nearest fire station leading up to closure?

• Reference: 2012/0076-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 12 September 2012

Please give a table listing the average attendance time in each of 32 London Boroughs (How long on average does it take for a Fire Appliance to reach a Fire or emergency operational call out ) Please ensure that this is the latest available data.

• Reference: 2012/0077-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 12 September 2012

Please give numbers of the actual uniformed Fire Service establishment in London Fire Brigade and compare this with the budgeted/target workforce numbers? How many vacancies is the Brigade carrying for the uniformed service?

• Reference: 2012/0078-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 12 September 2012

Please give a table listing each of the 112 London Fire Brigade's Fire stations and list in descending order (quietest stations at the top) the number of all emergency operational call outs responded to each station for the latest reported year (excluding false alarms, hoax calls etc).

• Reference: 2012/0079-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 12 September 2012

On average how much does it cost to maintain one Fire Appliance and its crew for one year? (excluding any costs associated with the running of the Fire station in which it is housed)