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• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Am I right in saying that the target for the percentage of time spent on community fire safety at station level has risen from 6 per cent to 8 per cent? Looking at the actual performance last year, over a third of our stations exceeded 10 per cent and one of them, Sutton, according to the figures, spent 25 per cent of their time on community fire safety. Is not 8 per cent really too low as a target, therefore, and should we not be getting the average a lot higher?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

If some can achieve above 20 per cent, can we not encourage the others too?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Thank you very much, Commissioner. I am very delighted to hear that, although I was rather sorry that there was a delay because I can remember at least two years ago when we were in here for a scrutiny session, and you came with your Union Representative and he agreed that there really was no hold up with the Union as to getting this sorted out in London as long as they were not to be sent there instead of an ambulance, to which we, of course, agreed. You have been given £100,000, but none of this has been drawn...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 09 November 2005

Okay, if I can just take it in stages. In terms of the progress, and clearly there is time involved, but we are on course to get all 10 relocated by March 2006 as per the plan, I hope.

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 09 November 2005

The related changes in the London Safety Plan around the location of the Command Support Unit and the Driver Training Centre ' are they also'

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 09 November 2005

Moving on indeed to the response times themselves, I think that we have new indicators here, particularly in relation to the second fire engine. Previously we were monitoring this in terms of the percentage of incidents at which attendance times met national standards of fire cover, where London was performing less well than some of the other Metropolitan Authorities. I think we have now got two new indicators and on the second fire engine point, the target is to respond within eight minutes on 75% of occasions. That is the key one, I think I am right in saying, on...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 09 November 2005

Those are London-wide targets. Overall, there is a net improvement, which is why we were very much in favour of this. However, clearly there are local variations and the concerns that were expressed last March were particularly that, while crudely outer London would benefit and needed to benefit, inner London would somehow lose out. Can you tell us how the response times for the second appliances are working out within those areas where there was concern that the loss of a second appliance would hit them.

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

I really commend the work that you are doing. I must congratulate you on the preventative work that you are doing, because it really is quite excellent. Under the guise of vulnerability, can I ask whether under your draft London Safety Plan and your modernisation plans you can assure me that there is going to be enough equipment and staff in areas where there are a large numbert of residential tower blocks? I mean council estates in London. Can you assure me that equipment and manpower is available in those areas?