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• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

I wonder if you might just draw down a little bit and say is your planning based on a sector response. Listening to you, yes, you have all this equipment, but we are just used to seeing fire engines moving from A to B. How would you respond to a sector? Are you saying that you have enough equipment and resources within a given sector, and so that that would, in itself, support a catastrophic incident in that sector?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

A lot of your learning came about after 9/11. Have you been around the table with your New York colleagues recently? I am just trying to get a sense of whether the equipment we have bought since 9/11 is really state-of-the-art. Is that something for the next two years, or should we be finding ways of working with people from Spain, New York, more so, because clearly, things move on in other worlds?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Last night in my constituency there was a major meeting because of concerns of movement of ordinary engines. What can you say to Londoners today in terms of your readiness from your service and working in collaboration with colleagues. Are you ready?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Surely you have learnt from that exercise and tested, and what did you use at that exercise, because you are saying ' in answer to question 363/2004 ' you are waiting for more equipment. What is happening now?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Another area which could well be a target is the Tube system, and one of the things I have not really picked up is the extent of London Underground Limited's (LUL's) involvement in London Resilience. Could you just inform us, at least, of what kind of discussions you have had on that front?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

I will direct my comments to Roy Bishop. You can well appreciate the residents of central London are particularly concerned, because the likelihood of a catastrophic incident will be that it is one of the landmarks of central London, so I welcome your response. Do your comments also cover the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea? Also, there is another issue in central London - the closure of Manchester Square. Can you confirm to me that that would not adversely affect the LFB's capability of dealing with a catastrophic incident in central London?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Roy Bishop added:

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Excuse me, did you not recognise this 17 years ago during the King's Cross fire? Are you saying that we have not moved on from there, and is it not about time that something was resolved, and you could all speak together?

• Reference: 2004/0362-1
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Can you describe in overview the changes which have been made and are being planned with LFB in order to prepare for a catastrophic incident?

• Reference: 2004/0363-1
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

When are the ODPM providing the next stream of equipment to the London Fire & Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) and what equipment are they expecting?