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• Reference: 2009/0116-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 21 October 2009

What are your top three greatest risks and how are you managing these, and what is your greatest reputational risk?

• Reference: 2008/0051-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 03 December 2008

How extensively does the London Fire Brigade consult with communities across London? Are you satisfied that consultation on the new London Safety Plan will be fully inclusive of all communities in London? What pportunities do communities have to influence the initial content in the London Safety Plan?

• Reference: 2008/0010-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

What lessons has the ODA learned from the Beijing Games?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

Can I ask one tiny supplementary which is a little bit tangential? I understand that Queen Mary College - which is a university round the corner from where I live and just down the road from Stratford - has made its student village - about 3,000 properties - available for the entirety of the Olympics. Is that in some way making up for the shortfall in accommodation that is likely to be built at Stratford?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

I do appreciate that most of the questions we want to ask you are probably subject to commercial confidentiality and so the last thing you want to do is announce the answers in public, but I will try one and maybe you can give us a thoughtful answer on this. It is about the IBC, the Media and Broadcast Centre. Is there a risk that it might not ultimately be built where it is proposed that it be built but that an opportunity might arise out of current other developments in the property market to relocate them within the Stratford...

• Reference: 2007/0095-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 07 November 2007

What action is the London Fire Brigade taking to reduce the number of call outs to free people shut in lifts?

• Reference: 2007/0098-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 07 November 2007

When will LFEPA complete its move to its new Lambeth HQ? What is the total cost of this move and what improvements can Londoners expect as a result?

• Reference: 2007/0101-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 07 November 2007

What is the latest information on the building of new fire stations and refurbishment of existing stations under the Private Finance Initiative?

• Reference: 2007/0103-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 07 November 2007

What action has the London Fire Brigade taken to reduce the hazards and disruption that can be caused by fires where acetylene cylinders are present?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

John Biggs (AM): I agree absolutely with what you as Chair have said, and I am somewhat satisfied by the responses from the Fire Authority, but I am wondering whether, rather than resting on a sort of annual flurry of sound bites about this, we should develop a strategy across the whole Authority - Borough Authority, Mayor, lobbying for legislation which actually helps to take this forward - without denying people the opportunity for pleasure and innocent fun.