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• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Tony Devenish AM: Thank you. My questions are for Sir Mark, please. Eighty days into the job and clearly you are talking about good signals that things are getting better in policing in London, and I want to pick two topics, please. The first is obviously anti-Semitism, and AM Pidgeon has already mentioned the terrible incident last year in Hanukkah on Oxford Street. Is there any progress, please, on that investigation? You realise it is not specifically the investigation itself; it is the signal that that sends in terms of fighting anti-Semitism.

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Tony Devenish AM: Thank you, Chair. I am going to follow the Chair’s request earlier, Sir Mark, in terms of South Hampstead and also ask if you could look at blatant drug dealing in Earl’s Court. My wider question is: do you think, once you have been in office for a good year, we could get rid of blatant drug dealing? It has become far more blatant right across London in recent years. It really does - I use an old-fashioned expression - lower the tone of an area. It is all about trying to reassure Londoners that we are...

• Reference: 2004/0414-1
• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

In the event of it being necessary to carry out a mass decontamination do you envisage encountering difficulties due to lack of co-operation from casualties?

• Reference: 2004/0416-1
• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Please could you explain the reasons for locating specialist vehicles, which would be required in the event of a major incident, outside the most likely areas for an attack and do you anticipate there could be problems in reaching the incident in the event of severe traffic congestion?

• Reference: 2004/0417-1
• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Are you confident that LFEPA now has all the necessary vehicles, equipment and trained staff that would be required for a resilient response to concurrent attacks?

• Reference: 2004/0418-1
• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

LFEPA, along with the police and ambulance services, has set up a multi-agency initial assessment team, on a trial basis, to provide a rapid initial assessment at catastrophic incidents. In the trial proves successful are you confident that Government funding will be forthcoming to allow the team to continue?