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• Reference: 2004/0410-1
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Have contingencies been made for dealing with secondary terrorist attacks on evacuations areas?

• Reference: 2004/0411-1
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

What are the procedures in place to recall all emergency service personal to active duty in light of a critical incidents? How long is it estimated that this would take?

• Reference: 2004/0397-1
• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Are plans in place to ensure the safe evacuation of London's prison population if necessary?

• Reference: 2004/0404-1
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

What discussions have taken place with the residential care industry in the capital regarding the suitable evacuation of the elderly in residential care?

• Reference: 2004/0406-1
• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

What plans are in place to remove and dispose of potentially contaminated rubble in light of an incident?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

At the MPA I have acknowledged the work that MPA members and the Met have done on this issue. Sitting as a Magistrate I certainly notice that there is a culture change in the police. Sir John, are you actually bringing the Magistracy on board as a whole? Because I have recently sat on quite a few of these cases and maybe one of my colleagues was not quite in agreement with my judgement. The most important thing you can do while the case is proceeding is to remove the offender from the home and that is the difficulty. Also...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

Obviously it appears that the one-stop shop approach is working. On 11 September last year the Government announced the launch of a 24-hour helpline with support from Comic Relief, for people to report domestic violence. Have the police or the Police Authority been involved with that initiative?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

I think Sir John's last point reassures me as regards the issue. I accept it in the spirit in which it is given. I hope that those responsible for distorting his words will reflect upon the damage that they have done to the Met's reputation. That is not a criticism of Sir John.

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

The Government recently proposed that the children of failed asylum seekers should be taken into care. What impact upon race and community relations do you think it would have to see Met officers assisting social workers in the Child Protection Agency as they forcibly remove these children from their parents? No doubt the parents would not surrender them willingly?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

If an officer found the proposal morally repugnant, as indeed I do, and he refused the order to assist in the snatching of children from their parents, would he be subject to a disciplinary process?