• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 07 September 2011

Mr Chairman, Commissioner, I wanted to also thank and congratulate you for your sterling work over the last few weeks alongside the officers of the MPS. It was a fantastic joint operation dealing with very difficult circumstances. I know and was pleased that you mentioned that the coordination between the two services was exceptional and saved a lot of lives as a result. I also wanted to offer my congratulations for, frankly, another magnificent year of performance both in terms of output and budget. You seem to be achieving year-on-year, that magic equation of doing better for less, consistently. I...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 07 September 2011

Can I echo James Cleverly's remarks from our side in terms of the support and praise to the whole service during the course of the recent events. Chair, if I can deal with that aspect first - the first part of James' [Cleverly] question - then move on to mine specifically in a moment. The Chairman referred to the Enfield Sony depot fire, but can I ask the Commissioner, given the references in the previous questioning - that I know you heard - to the fires in Tottenham and in Croydon on Monday night and the iconic image of fires...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 07 September 2011

Can I start by praising the fire service for the work it did in August. I think it was exceptional. Certainly, the Tottenham and Enfield residents are very grateful for the work that you did. I want to ask the question I asked the Commissioner. On Saturday 6 August, we had two police cars nearby Tottenham police station that were set alight. I think there was concern locally that because those fires were not put out those images were then broadcast and it may have attracted other elements into the area. Can I ask whether you were called? Were you...

• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 20 July 2011

If I could just continue on that Live sites point because, as you say, a number of issues have been raised by various residents across London. Could you just confirm, will all the Live sites be licensed?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 20 July 2011

They start on 2 July to 24 August at Hyde Park.

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 20 July 2011

Thank you, Neale, for your briefing today. Turning back to the line of inquiry that Len Duvall was talking about, the outer London boroughs and the £50,000, I will take a slightly contrary view from some earlier colleagues. Wouldn't the man or woman on the Lewisham, Croydon, Bromley omnibus feel that they have been let down a bit? Wouldn't they be disappointed with the fact that they are only getting £50,000, although the fact is they are contributing? Wouldn't they find it quite odd that all these other boroughs are whingeing that they are not getting enough money when they...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 20 July 2011

I don't want to upset Tony Arbour but unless Richmond have moved their position from June you won't be waving any flags at all, even with the Union Jack, regardless of what LOCOG do or not. Can I just ask you a very quick question around London House 2012 and the use of this building? In our agenda, in paragraph 4.18 of the report, it says that really this is only going to result in rooms being less available to staff and Assembly Members from July 2012 to September 2012. Do you accept that is the only issue? We are...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 20 July 2011

I have two issues in mind. The first is with street signage on public transport. As a tourist at Athens and at Beijing, I found that very useful in my experience of those cities. I am just wondering whether any thought has been put into that in the London context over and above what the ambassadors will be doing on the street level.

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 20 July 2011

Could I take you back to the discussion about public services and the cost of laying on various extra public services. I accept the figures that we have been given about some of the host boroughs close to the Olympic Park - and obviously there are other colleagues that can talk about them - but there are several that do concern me. I gather that the original estimate put in by the boroughs was £63.5 million and that has been reduced by the GLA and the Government to £21 million, which is a pretty considerable reduction. Now, as I understand...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 20 July 2011

I don't know whether this question would be for Neale or Vince. I want to pick up the issue of all these events that are going to be happening across London and I know there is the London Events Coordination Calendar and there is the Culture Diary. I think, in your recent answer to my colleague Dee Doocey, you said there were already over 4,000 events in the Culture Diary. However, you closed those diaries at the end of March, which seems a bit strange to me when clearly people would still be planning their events. I am told, looking...