Agenda item

Report of Andrew Boff AM

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The Assembly is recommended to:

(a)  Establish a time-limited ad hoc committee, to be known as the Thames Passenger Boats Investigation Committee, to identify any  lessons to be learned from the response to the incident involving an amphibious passenger vessel on the Thames on 29 September 2013, as an ordinary Committee of the Assembly comprising four Members, one Member from each group represented on the Assembly, the Committee being disestablished automatically following publication of its report, with any follow-up activity being referred to the GLA Oversight Committee for consideration; and

(b)  Approve the Committee’s terms of reference as follows:

To review and report to the Mayor and relevant functional bodies on lessons to be learned from the response to the incident involving an amphibious passenger vessel on the Thames on 29 September 2013 including:

·  The response by emergency and other rescue services to the incident;

·  The operation of amphibious passenger vessels on the Thames; and

·  The regulation of companies operating such craft commercially on the Thames.

(c)  Agree that the Committee should make any proposals to the Mayor, London Local Resilience Forum, London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority and Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime on any relevant issues arising from its work.

14.2  Resolved:

(a)  That a time-limited ad hoc committee, to be known as the Thames Passenger Boats Investigation Committee, to identify any lessons to be learned from the response to the incident involving an amphibious passenger vessel on the Thames on 29 September 2013, be established as an ordinary Committee of the Assembly comprising four Members, one Member from each group represented on the Assembly, the Committee being disestablished automatically following publication of its report, with any follow-up activity being referred to the GLA Oversight Committee for consideration;

(b)  That that Committee’s terms of reference, as set out below, be agreed:

To review and report to the Mayor and relevant functional bodies on lessons to be learned from the response to the incident involving an amphibious passenger vessel on the Thames on 29 September 2013 including:

·  The response by emergency and other rescue services to the incident;

·  The operation of amphibious passenger vessels on the Thames; and

·  The regulation of companies operating such craft commercially on the Thames.

(c)  That it be agreed that the Committee should make any proposals to the Mayor, London Local Resilience Forum, London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority and Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime on any relevant issues arising from its work;

(d)  That the membership of the Committee be:

Victoria Borwick AM;
Darren Johnson AM;
Stephen Knight AM;
Fiona Twycross AM; and

(e)  That all the other Assembly Members be appointed as substitute Members for the seat on the Thames Passenger Boats Investigation Committee which is allocated to the Member of their Party Group.