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• Reference: 2006/0329-1
• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Local residents have put forward a new proposal for Manchester Square Fire Station in which the Metropolitan Police would share the station, thus reducing the costs to LFEPA. What is LFEPA's reaction to this proposal?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 19 July 2006

I appreciate that the widely used definition of the poverty line is 60% of the median income. How was that originally arrived at, and is that an absolutely fixed definition?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 19 July 2006

No, no, indeed, because I think that is an important point, because I think that in the mindset of the public it is confusing when you hear that x percent of people in London are technically living at or below the poverty line. I wondered if that definition would still be applicable if the median income rose considerably in London. One might feel that the definition was less, then, to do with poverty. I suppose I am asking you: are we talking about relative poverty as opposed to absolute poverty?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 19 July 2006

One of the things that you have not really talked about in your answers is that while we bandy around this expression, `learning and skills', nobody actually defines precisely what skills are actually going to do the trick, and help deliver some of the solutions. Am I right in thinking that one of the skills that we need to put much more focus on, if we are going to get more people into work and skilled up, is language in this city of ours. The question - really for Mr Faulkner - is whether he finds that languages do provide...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 09 November 2005

I am perhaps expressing myself badly. I think what I was told by one of my residents was that the reason for the excellent response time on 7 July was in part luck because we had fire officers returning from an earlier incident, which meant they were they returning and free to go straight out. I do not know the truth of that; I am just putting that point to you because it was put to me and I wonder whether that was part of it. My other question to Valerie (Shawcross) is that I hear what you say about...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 09 November 2005

I look forward to having those figures but if I could just ask one more time ' I am just wondering if that is as good as it always was or whether there has been any change at all. That is what I want to know.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 09 November 2005

Obviously as I represent some of the central parts of London, I hear what you say about the fact that there has been a benefit to outer boroughs in terms of getting there speedily, but obviously any loss of minutes for central London is something I would have to view with some concern. In my view, it is better that there should be no loss of minutes and just extra facilities for outer London than that anything should have to move out at all. In any part of London this seems to me a better way forward. However, can I...

• Reference: 2005/0417-1
• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 09 November 2005

What implications do you expect the successful Olympics bid to have for LFEPA and how are you planning for 2012?

• Reference: 2005/0427-1
• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 09 November 2005

Have attendance times in the City of Westminster deteriorated since the closure of Manchester Square Fire Station?