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• Reference: 2014/2582
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 16 July 2014

The provision of cultural opportunities in London’s outer boroughs and the improvement of the accessibility to London’s cultural workforce were two priorities in the Mayor’s 2010 Cultural Strategy. What progress have you made since then, and what are the future goals, for both priorities?

• Reference: 2014/2583
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 16 July 2014

Why did you choose to update rather than replace or revise Cultural Metropolis? Can we expect further policy developments before the Mayoral election in 2016?

• Reference: 2014/2584
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 16 July 2014

What has been the cultural legacy of the Olympics and what efforts has the GLA made to help build a cultural legacy since the Olympics?

• Reference: 2014/2585
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 16 July 2014

What are you doing to help safeguard the future of live music venues, of varying sizes, in the capital?

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

I vaguely think that is a 'yes,' but never mind.

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Thank you very much. One is still a little bit worried. I do not think I have had a proper answer, but my concerns are really about the legal responsibilities that local authorities ' the educational authorities ' may have. One presumes that in a critical incident, children may be removed to a separate, secure place from their parents. Now, this raises the question about legal and practical care to ensure that the children are well-cared for in the short- and medium-term. Now, the term 'in loco parentis' is, in fact, common law, and it does not assume the responsibility...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

I wonder if you might just draw down a little bit and say is your planning based on a sector response. Listening to you, yes, you have all this equipment, but we are just used to seeing fire engines moving from A to B. How would you respond to a sector? Are you saying that you have enough equipment and resources within a given sector, and so that that would, in itself, support a catastrophic incident in that sector?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

A lot of your learning came about after 9/11. Have you been around the table with your New York colleagues recently? I am just trying to get a sense of whether the equipment we have bought since 9/11 is really state-of-the-art. Is that something for the next two years, or should we be finding ways of working with people from Spain, New York, more so, because clearly, things move on in other worlds?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Last night in my constituency there was a major meeting because of concerns of movement of ordinary engines. What can you say to Londoners today in terms of your readiness from your service and working in collaboration with colleagues. Are you ready?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Surely you have learnt from that exercise and tested, and what did you use at that exercise, because you are saying ' in answer to question 363/2004 ' you are waiting for more equipment. What is happening now?