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• 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: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 09 November 2005

You have that list in front of you with attendance times, which tells us that Westminster is fourth as predicted. Is Havering last as predicted?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 09 November 2005

I am very happy to take that as an undertaking. My final question is, in terms of community fire safety work, I know that the FBU and fire workers have had mixed feelings about their duties in this area and it has been challenging to get the responses and figures up. Do you feel that enough training and confidence has been developed in the workforce to reach out into the hardest parts of the community? For example I see people standing outside supermarkets with information leaflets but you do not know whether they are going into some of the more...

• 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: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 09 November 2005

It sounds like I was dangerously overly helpful in my question, so I thought I would follow it up with two brief supplementaries. The first is, and obviously I supported this strategy not least because at the other end of my constituency in Barking and Dagenham, they have not such good response times so I am hoping the redeployment will make it a little bit more equitable and safer for people in a whole range of environments across London. In Tower Hamlets, although you could argue it still has the highest response, the best response times and therefore should have...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 09 November 2005

You spoke about there being delays in the receiving boroughs. I know that one of them was Chingford. Can you say why there has been a delay there and when you expect that station to be ready, given that we have raised expectations and said the fire engine is needed there. Should we not have it there as soon as possible?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 09 November 2005

The location of the Command Support Unit needs to be changed and also the Driver Training Centre, away from Addington. Those are in train to happen. The locations were still not clear at the point we approved the Plan.

• 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...

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 09 November 2005

One thing that does occur to me obviously with all the improvements and modernisations and so on, where are you? To some degree it rolls into the question I will be asking later on. How much have you managed to take the unions with you in the last couple of years and where are you now with them?

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 09 November 2005

Good, excellent. I have just two specific questions: one is, we have already mentioned Manchester Square. However I want to mention it again because there are residents there who do feel that they have been deprived of fire cover and they are nervous about the fact that they have lost fire appliances from that area. What can you say to reassure people that their fears are not well-founded?