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• Reference: 2010/0103-1
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 08 September 2010

What benefits do the 12:12 shift pattern proposals bring to the fire service and Londoners?'

• Reference: 2009/0163-1
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Will you please explain what service improvements, efficiencies and other ancillary benefits we may expect if the 12:12 shift-pattern for firefighters is implemented?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Chairman, an excellent authority will have an excellent budget setting process. It was somewhat confused last year, I felt, and I wondered if you had any plans to streamline and improve the budget setting process and if perhaps you would learn any lessons from the previous performance of London boroughs, particularly boroughs in north west London?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Thank you, Commissioner. That sounds like a very reasonable proposal from Londoners' point of view. Why do you think the Fire Brigades Union has objected to it?

• Reference: 2008/0047-1
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 03 December 2008

What plans are there for modernising London fire stations to ensure they are fit for purpose?

• Reference: 2002/0273-1
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

The Draft Municipal Waste Strategy sets out a desire to create a single waste disposal authority for London. Bearing in mind many boroughs are already engaged in long-term waste contracts, how do you intend to create this single authority and how will it work? .

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

John - both you and Nicky, as the Mayor's Waste Advisor, have told us at the Environment Committee, that the use of wheeled bins by boroughs actually reduces the amount of recycling. Now, from the borough's point of view, wheeled bins are useful because it reduces their cost of collection, and from the householder's point of view, they're convenient. So, are you actually planning, as a part of your approach to waste, to be reducing wheeled bins in London, or are you going to accept them as a reality?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

You say you would hesitate if a new wheeled bin scheme was proposed. What form of activity would that hesitation take?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Well, either you think that wheeled bins are a bad thing and you're going to do something about it, or you're going to use them in a positive way, to help to improve people's recycling rates. I can think of several ways that you might actually modify a bin scheme to do that.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Can you envisage yourself turning down a contract because of the size of wheeled bins?