• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 09 November 2005

You have that list in front of you with attendance times, which tells us that Westminster is fourth as predicted. Is Havering last as predicted?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 09 November 2005

I am perhaps expressing myself badly. I think what I was told by one of my residents was that the reason for the excellent response time on 7 July was in part luck because we had fire officers returning from an earlier incident, which meant they were they returning and free to go straight out. I do not know the truth of that; I am just putting that point to you because it was put to me and I wonder whether that was part of it. My other question to Valerie (Shawcross) is that I hear what you say about...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 09 November 2005

Those are London-wide targets. Overall, there is a net improvement, which is why we were very much in favour of this. However, clearly there are local variations and the concerns that were expressed last March were particularly that, while crudely outer London would benefit and needed to benefit, inner London would somehow lose out. Can you tell us how the response times for the second appliances are working out within those areas where there was concern that the loss of a second appliance would hit them.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 09 November 2005

I am intending to be helpful, in that my question ' whether it was great minds thinking alike or monkeys with typewriters ' is more or less the same as Mike Tuffrey's, and it is the next question on the Order Paper. Sally Hamwee (Chair): Just so we all know where we are, is this a supplementary? John Biggs (AM): It is a supplementary but it might mean we can forgo my question after this one. Obviously there was a lot of heat and light in Tower Hamlets about the loss of the fire engine. Most of my question has...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 09 November 2005

That is very encouraging, because at the time, certainly from our side, we said we believed it would have this effect but if it proved not to, we were prepared to come back and reconsider.

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 09 November 2005

Moving on indeed to the response times themselves, I think that we have new indicators here, particularly in relation to the second fire engine. Previously we were monitoring this in terms of the percentage of incidents at which attendance times met national standards of fire cover, where London was performing less well than some of the other Metropolitan Authorities. I think we have now got two new indicators and on the second fire engine point, the target is to respond within eight minutes on 75% of occasions. That is the key one, I think I am right in saying, on...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 09 November 2005

The related changes in the London Safety Plan around the location of the Command Support Unit and the Driver Training Centre ' are they also'

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 09 November 2005

Okay, if I can just take it in stages. In terms of the progress, and clearly there is time involved, but we are on course to get all 10 relocated by March 2006 as per the plan, I hope.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 09 November 2005

It sounds as though it is a major constraint on the modernisation of the service. I am just wondering if you have done any lobbying with the relevant parties because it has always been the impression that I have had, with English Heritage certainly, that they have the listing without the financial responsibilities and it is something they need to be more receptive to.

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 23 February 2005

Given your comments about diversity and the problems Southwark is in at the moment because of their neglect in some of these areas, are you saying that you are going to be asking the Planning Unit to take some special advice, or give some special advice on diversity issues within the context of this project?