• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

I would like to go back to the issue of the hard-to-reach groups, particularly Asian women and the disabled. Have you had any thoughts on how you can improve access to those groups?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

So it would be a disciplinary board and not a conviction?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

That is very welcome. I think Sir John quite rightly said how important it is that victims continue to receive support. What are we doing to ensure that victims are kept informed of the progress of their case? Hopefully there is a lot of support usually at the beginning and shortly after the incident. It takes quite a long time to go through to judicial disposal. What attention is paid to keeping these victims informed?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

I very much welcome the huge change in the Met's attitude to domestic violence over recent years. It is a complete turnaround and very welcome. I also welcome the answers we have had today. The report from the London Domestic Violence Forum stated amongst many other things that `Training for frontline officers in particular remains an urgent priority'. How is that being addressed?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

I wonder if you could tell me on how many of those occasions the boats were called out to fires? On how many occasions was there a fire they had to put out and perhaps you could also give me some idea of the other kinds of things the fireboats were called upon to do?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

I do have another quick question, which is around the pay settlement. At what point do we review the terms and conditions on a particular issue that comes up every year, a recycled issue, which is on station cooks. I have a concern around the sickness and health levels of our firefighters and in fact the whole team. Where would that fit with the abolition of cooks?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

My question leads on from Tony's (Arbour) and then I have a separate question. The first part to it is that the title, as I know it, is the Fire and Emergency Planning Authority. Not long ago, part of the Environment Committee's work was to do with flooding, which is not a fire. As far as I know, fires and flooding are not necessarily completely and utterly linked except for electrical faults, but there are issues around flooding. Taking on from Tony Arbour's question, presumably the review that you are doing will not include just fire.

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

Would the Commissioner wish to comment?