Search questions

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Prior to the election, I was a member of that Gold group, and I know how I was going to be ferried in to whichever point was possible. It is not always possible to get in to Scotland Yard, but there will be that gap when the international media are absolutely, totally hungry for news, as will be Londoners and the rest of the UK. Someone has to fill that gap, and I am asking, 'who?'

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

I am glad to hear the balanced view on that. Obviously, we totally oppose them, but one of the main problems is that many people claim benefits for them ' in situations like this ' when other countries, when you ask them, on their own systems, they say, 'No, it does not help.' The core of my question really was, 'Is there any evidence that has ever been produced, any specific data or evidence that is currently being used in order to justify the introduction of compulsory identity cards with regard to situations like this ' civil contingencies?'

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

One of the issues is, obviously, what would happen in a chemical attack or other form of attack which involves pollution of the air or water. One of the concerns then is that widespread panic could take place, so what would be the position of and what plans are there to physically constrain people within specific areas where those areas have been subject to the chemical attack?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Can I just ask ' I do not know who of you might have the answer to this ' have you been given any indication by 2012 what numbers to expect for an Olympic Games in London, were we to be successful with our bid of visitors? I have heard figures of perhaps a million extra people in London for the Olympics. Have you been given any sort of ballpark figures?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Has anybody been given a figure? I am interested to know what sort of figures you have been led to expect.

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Thank you for the answer, sir, to the relationship with the trial. Can we be clear? Have we got agreed performance and assessment criteria or other success criteria that are being applied to this, so that at the end of it, we can say this has been a successful trial, and therefore, we want the Government money to flow, or alternatively, that maybe this is not the right way forward?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

What are they?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Commander Mick Messinger added:

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

On what you were saying about the generic framework for evacuation, Operation Sassoon, at that time, the progress report admitted that the plans were in place, but sort of in their infancy, and that detailed support plans for each agency involved, a communication strategy, and more detailed overall organisation needed to be worked on. Are you saying you have now worked on them, and they are completed, or will they be still in their infancy?

• Reference: 2004/0368-1
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

The London Safety Plan notes the existence of a new entity called the multi-agency initial assessment team. What benefits will this team bring to Londoners?