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

Commissioner, can I say on behalf of my constituents how grateful we were to firefighters who attended at Clapham Junction in Battersea. Indeed, yesterday, Jane Ellison, the Member of Parliament for Battersea, was visiting the Battersea firefighters at the station. I would have been there too had I not been here on Transport Committee duties. My question is first of all to the Chairman. Do you share my impatience and frustration at Navin Shah's question to you about the budget and the potential budget of LFEPA, when it is so skilfully managed by Councillor Maurice Heaster from Wandsworth and the...

• Reference: 2010/0101-1
• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 08 September 2010

In light of the Government project 'Fire Futures' and the Mayor's document 'Investing For Recovery -A New Deal For London', what strategic-level changes would you like to see?

• 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?

• Reference: 2009/0168-1
• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Will the new Regional Control Centre at Merton be ready in time for the Olympics, and if not what contingency plans need to be, and are, in place?

• 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?

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

If I heard right, you, Chair, Mr Coleman, you said that that callout would have cost over £200?

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

This is a question for the Chairman. I hope, Mr Chairman, you will not be taking any lessons on budgeting from the former Leader of Harrow Council, Mr Shah when, as I understand it, the budgets in Harrow got into some serious disarray in the period of 2005/06 and so, surely you need some wiser counsel.