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• Reference: 2003/0320
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

What steps are you taking to ensure that the increasing budget cost associated with pensions are fully covered by the government and not by London residents through the Council Tax precept? .

• Reference: 2003/0323
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

What progress has been made in recruiting (and retaining) more people from minority ethnic backgrounds and women into the Fire Service? What specific policies are in place to tackle age discrimination within the Fire Service? .

• Reference: 2003/0348
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

Is there scope for further civilianisation of posts within LFEPA? .

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

You talk about 40% of the vehicles still needing work. How many is that in real terms?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

The point I was going to make is that you have a lot fewer vehicles than Transport for London, or in fact most of the people we would target through an emissions zone who are running fleets. Not only do you have relatively fewer vehicles, they are most of the time sitting in garages rather than out polluting the environment. They actually travel only when going to an emergency. I think it could reasonably be argued that however much pollution they are creating at least they are saving more lives than they are destroying, unlike most of the other polluting...

• Reference: 2003/0001
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 29 January 2003

What are the financial implications of the medium and long term modernisation programme needed for the London Fire Brigade? .

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 29 January 2003

The Bain Review also talked about middle managers and their reward structure, saying their terms and conditions should be based on similar principles to those of the main pay group. There has not been a great deal of discussion about this. Are you able to tell us anything about them, and are they included in that £2 million?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 29 January 2003

Finally, on pensions - in what seems a wonderfully naïve paragraph, the report says, "The Government should address the longer-term future of the firefighters" pension scheme, and take early decisions to ensure that suitable arrangements are provided for the new, reformed Fire Service'. Do you have any information as to whether the Government has made any progress in reacting to that paragraph?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 29 January 2003

And what about investment in order to modernise? Will there have to be money put in to achieve the objectives of the review, in addition to the imbalance in timing in the modernisation effects coming through on pay?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 29 January 2003

What about the £2 million?