Search questions

• Reference: 2015/3980
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 02 December 2015

Since 2009/10, the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority has had to make cuts of £105.8 million and a further £50 million has been taken from the LFEPA reserves. Are you confident that in light of these and future budget cuts, the London Fire Brigade will continue to be fit for purpose and can ensure the safety of Londoners?

• Reference: 2015/3981
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 02 December 2015

In light of the similar responses from the Mayor, Assembly and Fire Authority to the Government's consultation 'Enabling closer working between the Emergency Services', what impact do you envisage the dissolution of LFEPA and the establishment of a Deputy Mayor for Fire and Emergency Planning would have on the London Fire Brigade?

• Reference: 2015/3982
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 02 December 2015

Are you well prepared for the impact that a changing climate might have on the fire brigade's work over the coming decade?

• Reference: 2015/3984
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 02 December 2015

How has the closure of Westminster fire station impacted attendance times in the City of Westminster?

• Reference: 2015/3985
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 02 December 2015

How has the closure of Knightsbridge fire station impacted attendance times in the City of Westminster?

• Reference: 2015/3986
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 02 December 2015

How has the closure of Knightsbridge fire station impacted attendance times in the borough of Kensington and Chelsea?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 02 December 2015

Mayor John Biggs AM: Thank you very much for your earlier answers. I obviously have a parochial interest as the Assembly Member for East London. Particularly Newham but also Tower Hamlets have been adversely affected by the closure of fire stations and the loss of appliances. In your current proposals, potentially we lose another three appliances in Poplar, Plaistow and Stratford and a fourth nearby in Shoreditch. Can you tell us what the cumulative impact would be on residents in my constituency in East London and whether there would be more areas that will fall outside the six-minute response time...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 02 December 2015

Richard Tracey AM: First of all, Commissioner, you have dealt to some extent with this question of ward-level response, but can I ask you a straight question? Is it actually practical to talk about ward-level calculations? Is that really a practical point in the nature of firefighting or do you have to look over a wider area than simply a ward of - whatever it is - 10,000 people?

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 02 December 2015

Andrew Dismore AM: First of all, Gareth, I am pleased that you welcome that we have put forward an alternative budget and I look forward to debating that with you this afternoon. I hope that it will mean we can save Kentish Town’s pump, which is in the mix of the 13 fire engines. After the Belsize and Clerkenwell closures in the LSP5 round, Camden has taken more than its fair share of cuts, as the attendance figures show. What I really want to do, though, is to concentrate on the future Sixth London Safety Plan (LSP6). From Camden’s point...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 02 December 2015

Valerie Shawcross CBE AM: You mentioned earlier, Commissioner, collaboration with other emergency services and so I just wanted to ask both of you about the co-responding model. I have seen it operate successfully in rural areas with retained firefighters, but of course the dynamics of serving a very sparse rural community are very different from London. What is your view on whether or not co-responding is an appropriate model for London at all, both of you?