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• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

I wonder if you might just draw down a little bit and say is your planning based on a sector response. Listening to you, yes, you have all this equipment, but we are just used to seeing fire engines moving from A to B. How would you respond to a sector? Are you saying that you have enough equipment and resources within a given sector, and so that that would, in itself, support a catastrophic incident in that sector?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

A lot of your learning came about after 9/11. Have you been around the table with your New York colleagues recently? I am just trying to get a sense of whether the equipment we have bought since 9/11 is really state-of-the-art. Is that something for the next two years, or should we be finding ways of working with people from Spain, New York, more so, because clearly, things move on in other worlds?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Last night in my constituency there was a major meeting because of concerns of movement of ordinary engines. What can you say to Londoners today in terms of your readiness from your service and working in collaboration with colleagues. Are you ready?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Surely you have learnt from that exercise and tested, and what did you use at that exercise, because you are saying ' in answer to question 363/2004 ' you are waiting for more equipment. What is happening now?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Excuse me, did you not recognise this 17 years ago during the King's Cross fire? Are you saying that we have not moved on from there, and is it not about time that something was resolved, and you could all speak together?

• Reference: 2004/0362-1
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Can you describe in overview the changes which have been made and are being planned with LFB in order to prepare for a catastrophic incident?

• Reference: 2004/0366-1
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

What lessons have the LFB learnt from the Osiris exercise at Bank Underground Station and how have these been implemented?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

Thank you for that answer, but you will recall that one of the issues that was raised at the five-borough planning meeting was the legacy. Really my question is about what guarantees we are building in to ensure that facilities that are built really can have the revenue in order that they can carry on, and we are not left in a position with so-called `white elephants- around the place.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

Can I just press you: when you say "sign off" and "your assurance," we hear this, and people in Hackney and in east London have heard this time and time again, so can you just dig deeper? What do you mean? What guarantees are there that there will be a revenue stream and that these jobs that are created will stay local? I do not get a sense of what is happening and who is going to be leading. Will the LDA be leading on behalf of the Mayor to ensure that the legacy is longer than the Games?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

Can I just take you round to the people. One of the riches of the city and one of the riches of the Games pitch is the diversity and the ethnic minority communities that are at the heart of this area of London. What guarantees do they have that they will be seen as part of a future in terms of jobs, or will they only be brought out to serve at the banquets?