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• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 29 January 2003

: With the recent ricin incident in Wood Green, my understanding is that - I'm not sure about the local authority - but the police commander and the Chair of primary health trust, both had a delay of something like 24 hours after the incident before they were even informed of what was happening. My question is at what point in that was the Fire Service aware?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 29 January 2003

Well, was that 24 hours after it was first announced?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 29 January 2003

I understand, okay. Because I understood there was a confusion with an intervention from Downing Street. I just want to be assured that there was no confusion over this, because the people in Haringey were obviously anxious when they heard about it. But that was after this confusion had been solved.

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 10 October 2001

Thank you. I think you have just demonstrated the point, actually. You've given a reasonably full answer on tourism, which is something we should have had before. If it wasn't Functional Bodies Question Time today, would we have had that information? The point about this whole debate, and I think you're getting it cross-party actually, is the feeling that you stick out like a sore thumb in your attitude towards openness and accountability, not just to the public. I would like these meetings all to be public and I would like all the information. What you've said today should have...