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• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Thank you, Sir Ken. I think we would all like to congratulate those success stories that you have just highlighted. Obviously the picture we are getting is that it is a patchy performance across London. Would you agree with that?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Thank you very much, Commissioner. I am very delighted to hear that, although I was rather sorry that there was a delay because I can remember at least two years ago when we were in here for a scrutiny session, and you came with your Union Representative and he agreed that there really was no hold up with the Union as to getting this sorted out in London as long as they were not to be sent there instead of an ambulance, to which we, of course, agreed. You have been given £100,000, but none of this has been drawn...

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Commissioner, the Metropolitan Police has received some initial funding to help them prepare for the Olympic Games and their resilience thereto. Has the London Fire Brigade received any preparatory monies to help them forward, and to what extent are you involved in the planning for that event when some ten million visitors are expected to go to the Games in a period of about three weeks?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

The Olympics are vulnerable from both the river and the canals. Are you involved in protection of the Olympic sites from the river and the canals and do you have the equipment?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

So the Chair (of LFEPA) was not right to say that it was to do with cost of refurbishing?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

I was never saying the outer Boroughs should continue to have less. What I argued for was that London as a whole should have more which would mean that everybody could enjoy more, rather than some having to then lose some in order for others to gain some. It just seemed to me we were trying to cut the cake smaller. My final point would be, are you aware, Sir Ken, that the residents in the area are continuing to put together new rescue plans, and that right now they say they are talking to the Metropolitan Police about sharing...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

So you are not really interested in talking to them about their proposal?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

It would only work if you were plugged in with it, would it not?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

I was delighted to hear the Chair's reference to Bromley as I am always delighted to hear references to Bromley. Would perhaps the Commissioner agree that one thing that would assist and enhance response times in the London Borough of Bromley would be the provision of a suitable vehicle, perhaps four-wheel drive or similar, at Biggin Hill Fire Station to reflect the particular circumstances of the ground which Biggin Hill has to cover, being large semi-rural, having to deal with haystack fires and a lot of things that do not occur elsewhere in London?

• Reference: 2006/0326-1
• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Are targets for community fire safety work being met in all London Boroughs, and if not what action is being taken to resolve this?