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• Reference: 2008/0001
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

How does the Mayor intend to meet his environmental and housing objectives?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

Thank you very much. You have told us lots about your good intentions and your principles and so on - and indeed about 90% of what you have said was about your intentions - but not what you have actually achieved. That really is rather like the expenditure that there has been on these programmes. Is it good value for money that, of the £2.7 million that has been spent on the Green Homes programme, £2.2 million of that has been spent on publicity and only £300,000 on actual insulation grant? Would you not say that the whole thing is...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

The truth of the matter is, and this really is to the Deputy Mayor, that this was a publicity campaign. There was never any belief that there would be a substantial take'up, as indeed there was not a substantial take-up. It is a fact that every single one of the campaigns that you have had which do not involve compulsion relating to saving energy has been a complete failure. I wonder if I can put to you the amount of money that you have spent on Recycle for London; the Mayor has spent almost £1 million on this over the...

• Reference: 2003/0346
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

On how many occasions have the fire boats been deployed operationally in the last 12 months .

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

One statistic that your people did not find relating to the question that I asked was how many of the fires that they were called to did they put out?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

I am grateful to you for that very full answer. It does not convince me that this service is worth the £1.6 million that it costs. If I may draw your attention to a couple of things, are you aware that during the past year additional RNLI Lifeboat Stations have been opened in the upper Thames? I have two in my constituency for example. They have been called out to a fair number of those things you described as `other incidents' like persons in the river. Do you not think that there may now be an opportunity for suggesting that...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

I wonder if you could tell me on how many of those occasions the boats were called out to fires? On how many occasions was there a fire they had to put out and perhaps you could also give me some idea of the other kinds of things the fireboats were called upon to do?

• Reference: 2003/0039
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 29 January 2003

Why have you allowed the Fire Brigades Union to display banners and other propaganda at London fire stations and on fire appliances and do you not agree that this shows a lack of strong management of London Fire Brigade? .

• Reference: 2003/0042
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 29 January 2003

In order that LFEPA recruits staff with strong potential for future managerial roles do you believe there should be a two-tier entry system for firefighters? .

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 29 January 2003

You have been in control for two years. LFEPA has been established for two years. You knew that this problem existed. You knew that these difficulties were there. In effect, you're telling us that you feel that there was no time when you could have instituted these changes. You have used what I consider to be a most inappropriate phrase, saying you don't want to "inflame" the situation. The truth of the matter is that to ordinary Londoners, it looks as though you are appeasing the firefighters, and even when the strike is resolved, it will have been demonstrated that...