• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Thanks for that reply and I am pleased to hear you will meet with them because one thing that does concern me in that area -

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Well I am disappointed then. My concern is that there are as large number of flats, new places being opened in the area; Abbey National, Marks & Spencer and all the rest of them are turning into flats. That is a concern because the Marylebone Association is quite clear that they feel there should be a fire station there, they feel they have the potential support of people like Frank Dobson, MP for Holborn - who I gather has written to you about it - the Duke of Westminster, possible the new West End company, all sorts of people have...

• 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 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 think it is a bit rich coming from my colleague, Mr Hulme Cross, given that he actually voted for the closure of the fire station on LFEPA so there are a bit of crocodile tears going on there I suspect, whereas I, as the local Assembly Member for the constituency, have at all time reflected my concerns about this closure. I recognise what you are saying, that things are not as bad perhaps as they had been predicted, and indeed remain well within your target areas. However, the point that my residents would make is that rather than having...

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

So, in other words the Government has asked you to take the lead on the matter but not provided any money to do so?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

You wrote a very comprehensive letter to the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) and got a response from Mike Reid at the Fire and Resilience Policy Division. On two occasions in his letter he says these are `local operational matters'; the question of buying additional fire rescue units. So the Policy Division on Resilience calls this a `local operational matter'. Are we getting through to them at all?

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

So that implies it was right for the Authority to refuse to take that directly from the London tax payers if the ODA is going to come up with the money?

• 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: 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?