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• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 07 September 2011

After all we hear that emergency services are constantly under attack, from nurses, doctors, fire workers, police, all of this going on, it is a technical question. Outside of the appliances that the London Fire Brigade has, which are static in the sense they rely upon groundwater resource for the purpose of their functioning, how many units are there in London that are mobile water dispensers or water fighters in the sense they carry their own water supply with them?

• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Thank you, Chair. I would like to take a step back as we look towards legacy. We are all aware in this Chamber that the host boroughs of east London are some of the poorest locations in the capital. 70,000 unemployed adults are in the seven east London boroughs that neighbour the Olympic site. I am looking at the foundations of a legacy. How is it possible to truly call this a legacy when, at this moment in time, of the 5,381 employed people on the site, only 20% are from the five hosting boroughs and 48% are non-British? This...

• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Again, it is relating to the London Plan and forward planning across London. In my own borough and council of Barking and Dagenham there is the intention of between 15,000 and 25,000 new houses going up. This, in a sense, with the further request for more housing, both social and council, in the Ford area, in the marshes, would almost constitute a new ward being developed. Is there a possibility of future plans to upgrade the Dagenham Fire Station there on the grounds that, with this new development going forward between the next three and ten years, that there will...

• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 03 December 2008

After a month into Mayor Boris' election result here as the Mayor of London, he visited Barking and Dagenham. He actually spent some time at the, what I would consider to be, rather dilapidated fire station of East Dagenham. Rumours are going round - I would like to have these clarified if I can - whether it was going to be either upgraded or the station was to be demolished and replaced with a new station. Which of these two would be correct?