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• Reference: 2008/0051-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 03 December 2008

How extensively does the London Fire Brigade consult with communities across London? Are you satisfied that consultation on the new London Safety Plan will be fully inclusive of all communities in London? What pportunities do communities have to influence the initial content in the London Safety Plan?

• Reference: 2007/0095-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 07 November 2007

What action is the London Fire Brigade taking to reduce the number of call outs to free people shut in lifts?

• Reference: 2007/0098-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 07 November 2007

When will LFEPA complete its move to its new Lambeth HQ? What is the total cost of this move and what improvements can Londoners expect as a result?

• Reference: 2007/0101-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 07 November 2007

What is the latest information on the building of new fire stations and refurbishment of existing stations under the Private Finance Initiative?

• Reference: 2007/0103-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 07 November 2007

What action has the London Fire Brigade taken to reduce the hazards and disruption that can be caused by fires where acetylene cylinders are present?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

Many of my constituents in East London are enterprising, go getting kids, who are improving their school standards. People are making enormous progress, but there are various communities that are stuck. Would you agree with me that it is actually rather naïve of people - not that any are in this room, of course - to think that the Olympic Games will in some way solve all of those entrenched problems in one fell swoop? In other words, the Olympic Games are part of a big process that will last, in some cases, several generations, I think, before we sort...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

That was an easy question, obviously. Try a harder one. Do you have what I might call an economic model as to how the Olympic Games will integrate with the wider regeneration of the area, and how you might, as the LDA, reach into those, harder-to-reach groups? I think giving email lists of 50 names is dramatic, it is maybe a press release, but it is not really a way of doing that.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

One final question then, just to bring it back to London level, and maybe just look at East London as an example, but I think this refers to other Members concerns. Within my constituency I have Newham, Tower Hamlets, obviously beneficiaries from the Games, but Barking and Dagenham as well, who, although they are very positive, are a little bit grumpy as well. They are saying all the action is down the road there. How does the economic model that the LDA and others are working to really benefit us in other parts of London? And, I take it that...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

Could you tell us about the work you are doing, if any, to ensure that while, currently, Government is very focused, like being dazzled by headlights, on cost issues, it remains equally focused on the regeneration, the economic wealth creation of the United Kingdom, as well as London, issues flowing from the Games? Maybe other guests could add to that as well.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

John Biggs (AM): I agree absolutely with what you as Chair have said, and I am somewhat satisfied by the responses from the Fire Authority, but I am wondering whether, rather than resting on a sort of annual flurry of sound bites about this, we should develop a strategy across the whole Authority - Borough Authority, Mayor, lobbying for legislation which actually helps to take this forward - without denying people the opportunity for pleasure and innocent fun.