• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

I am trying to get my head round this, and I have written down 'complementary specialisms, information flow, early advice, and then the crunch, which is marshalling resources to the scene.' Can you just tell me, what difference will it make, if you actually have this? What difference will it make, if there is a catastrophic event?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Commander Mick Messinger added:

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Philip Selwood added:

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

I will direct my comments to Roy Bishop. You can well appreciate the residents of central London are particularly concerned, because the likelihood of a catastrophic incident will be that it is one of the landmarks of central London, so I welcome your response. Do your comments also cover the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea? Also, there is another issue in central London - the closure of Manchester Square. Can you confirm to me that that would not adversely affect the LFB's capability of dealing with a catastrophic incident in central London?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Philip Selwood added:

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

What are they?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Thank you for the answer, sir, to the relationship with the trial. Can we be clear? Have we got agreed performance and assessment criteria or other success criteria that are being applied to this, so that at the end of it, we can say this has been a successful trial, and therefore, we want the Government money to flow, or alternatively, that maybe this is not the right way forward?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Another area which could well be a target is the Tube system, and one of the things I have not really picked up is the extent of London Underground Limited's (LUL's) involvement in London Resilience. Could you just inform us, at least, of what kind of discussions you have had on that front?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Surely you have learnt from that exercise and tested, and what did you use at that exercise, because you are saying ' in answer to question 363/2004 ' you are waiting for more equipment. What is happening now?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Last night in my constituency there was a major meeting because of concerns of movement of ordinary engines. What can you say to Londoners today in terms of your readiness from your service and working in collaboration with colleagues. Are you ready?