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• Reference: 2014/4960
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 05 November 2014

Can I invite you make a short opening statement before we move on to the questions which have been tabled?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 12 September 2012

Fortuitously, Madam Chairman, my question is about response times, so it may be that the Chairman is able to clarify his position here, because we would not want him to be misreported in the electronic media emanating from this meeting, would we. We recall the production of the very first London Safety Plan, which I think was overseen by Valerie Shawcross when she was Chair of the Brigade. That demonstrated that response times were poor in some parts of London, including Havering, and actually led to an improvement in the resources in those boroughs. The question that I have for...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

What you actually said to Jenny (Jones) was that the flood defences will have to be improved because of environmental factors: global warming, sinking land, and the fact that the risk will have increased by 2030. Of course, we do not just flick a switch and the risk doubles in 2030; the risk is increasing all the time incrementally towards that. But you did not say anything, with respect, about the risk management element, which has to take into account the value of what you are protecting as well as the risk of something happening. I am not convinced that...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

Nor, I assume, do you put your police stations and fire stations and hospitals and emergency services that will need to respond to a flood within the flood zone?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

Is there a plan which is going to ensure all these things are placed back from the area that is potentially in danger? How do you actually, when you are doing that, speak to local residents and businesses who are in the high risk area and assure them that, just because you have not got public facilities there, that does not meant it is a no-go area?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004