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• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

To save time here, I would be grateful if we could be sent that costing assessment, and if you also have any assessment of the costing, as you rightly say, of the social and health infrastructure, that would be helpful

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

That would be helpful for the Assembly to have. The final question I wanted to ask was this: given that much of the infrastructure and demands do not stop at the Greater London boundary, what joint work has been done with, for example, Essex and Kent County Councils and the surrounding regions to see (a) what can be done to make sure that the infrastructure provision is properly aligned and (b) what economies of scale and what joint lobbying work can be done to advance the Gateway issue?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

It would be very helpful to have the costings as far as they go on infrastructure issues. How advanced are we in terms of who is going to pay for all of this?

• Reference: 2003/0345
• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

How much is the firefighters pay settlement going to cost LFEPA and how is it to be funded? .

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

Am I right in thinking that the full-year cost of the settlement, including pension contributions, works out to about £10.6 million per year?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

Is the pay and prices reserves sufficient to meet an award above 4%?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

I think the gap is about £1.9 million is it? I wondered what steps you have taken to try to bridge that. Have you sought transitional funding from the Government for example?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

It was made very clear by the Government, at the time of the settlement, that the settlement would be funded by modernisation. Are there enough modernisation savings to be had in the London Fire Brigade to fund the pay settlement? If not, who is going to make up the balance?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

So how much of the settlement is going to fall upon the Council Tax payer?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

Are you concerned that your stance on this undermines the stance of the Deputy Prime Minister when he said the settlement would be funded entirely from modernisation savings?