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• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

So how much of the settlement is going to fall upon the Council Tax payer?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

Are you concerned that your stance on this undermines the stance of the Deputy Prime Minister when he said the settlement would be funded entirely from modernisation savings?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

Did you raise with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister at the time that it was unrealistic for him to give the impression to the public that all would be funded by modernisation savings?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

That would be an argument for extra and special treatment on funding for London. Has any such offer been forthcoming from Government?

• Question by: Noel Lynch
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

I must say that I thought the fireboats were good value for money. How can we encourage fire-fighters to work in London, given the high costs of living?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

One statistic that your people did not find relating to the question that I asked was how many of the fires that they were called to did they put out?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

I am grateful to you for that very full answer. It does not convince me that this service is worth the £1.6 million that it costs. If I may draw your attention to a couple of things, are you aware that during the past year additional RNLI Lifeboat Stations have been opened in the upper Thames? I have two in my constituency for example. They have been called out to a fair number of those things you described as `other incidents' like persons in the river. Do you not think that there may now be an opportunity for suggesting that...

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

My question leads on from Tony's (Arbour) and then I have a separate question. The first part to it is that the title, as I know it, is the Fire and Emergency Planning Authority. Not long ago, part of the Environment Committee's work was to do with flooding, which is not a fire. As far as I know, fires and flooding are not necessarily completely and utterly linked except for electrical faults, but there are issues around flooding. Taking on from Tony Arbour's question, presumably the review that you are doing will not include just fire.

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

I do have another quick question, which is around the pay settlement. At what point do we review the terms and conditions on a particular issue that comes up every year, a recycled issue, which is on station cooks. I have a concern around the sickness and health levels of our firefighters and in fact the whole team. Where would that fit with the abolition of cooks?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

I wonder if you could tell me on how many of those occasions the boats were called out to fires? On how many occasions was there a fire they had to put out and perhaps you could also give me some idea of the other kinds of things the fireboats were called upon to do?