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• Reference: 2003/0328
• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

What work is LFEPA doing to help reduce the number of deaths in London through heart attacks? .

• Reference: 2003/0333
• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

What benefits will the new Fire and Community Safety Centre in Hammersmith have over the old fire station? .

• Reference: 2003/0337
• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

What work is being done to reduce the number of abandoned cars being set alight? .

• Reference: 2003/0346
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

On how many occasions have the fire boats been deployed operationally in the last 12 months .

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

One statistic that your people did not find relating to the question that I asked was how many of the fires that they were called to did they put out?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

I am grateful to you for that very full answer. It does not convince me that this service is worth the £1.6 million that it costs. If I may draw your attention to a couple of things, are you aware that during the past year additional RNLI Lifeboat Stations have been opened in the upper Thames? I have two in my constituency for example. They have been called out to a fair number of those things you described as `other incidents' like persons in the river. Do you not think that there may now be an opportunity for suggesting that...

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

My question leads on from Tony's (Arbour) and then I have a separate question. The first part to it is that the title, as I know it, is the Fire and Emergency Planning Authority. Not long ago, part of the Environment Committee's work was to do with flooding, which is not a fire. As far as I know, fires and flooding are not necessarily completely and utterly linked except for electrical faults, but there are issues around flooding. Taking on from Tony Arbour's question, presumably the review that you are doing will not include just fire.

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

I do have another quick question, which is around the pay settlement. At what point do we review the terms and conditions on a particular issue that comes up every year, a recycled issue, which is on station cooks. I have a concern around the sickness and health levels of our firefighters and in fact the whole team. Where would that fit with the abolition of cooks?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

I wonder if you could tell me on how many of those occasions the boats were called out to fires? On how many occasions was there a fire they had to put out and perhaps you could also give me some idea of the other kinds of things the fireboats were called upon to do?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

Did you say that it would be by Christmas that you would have your report to indicate where you will be with low emission zones?