• Question by: Diana Johnson
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

How much is that?

• Question by: Diana Johnson
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

Do you have a budget for purchasing smoke alarms and installing them for elderly people and people at risk?

• Question by: Diana Johnson
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

Okay thank you for that. Can I just check one thing: The 25,000 free home fire risk assessments are focused on the elderly, is that correct? It is not exclusively for the elderly.

• Question by: Diana Johnson
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

I really commend the work that you are doing. I must congratulate you on the preventative work that you are doing, because it really is quite excellent. Under the guise of vulnerability, can I ask whether under your draft London Safety Plan and your modernisation plans you can assure me that there is going to be enough equipment and staff in areas where there are a large numbert of residential tower blocks? I mean council estates in London. Can you assure me that equipment and manpower is available in those areas?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

Can I take you back to your Safety Plan? Can you tell us what measures you have taken to ensure that the needs of black and ethnic minority elders and their carers will be met at the same standard in proposals for things to be interpreted or the expensive support that your service will need to be able to do that. Are you not then going to set off and then come to a point where you then make the evaluation and say that you were not able to help black and ethnic minorities because you did not have language...

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

Just going on a bit from what Jenny (Jones) was talking about. I just wanted to say that if we were to issue gold stars from the Environment Committee and maybe it should be green stars, then LFEPA does get a bit more in terms of delivering through responding to the environment agenda but also being able to quantify and put very clear markers down where you think you have the gold stars and where you think you know where you are in the process. I wanted to say that there is clear engagement on the environmental agenda, which is...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

The point I was going to make is that you have a lot fewer vehicles than Transport for London, or in fact most of the people we would target through an emissions zone who are running fleets. Not only do you have relatively fewer vehicles, they are most of the time sitting in garages rather than out polluting the environment. They actually travel only when going to an emergency. I think it could reasonably be argued that however much pollution they are creating at least they are saving more lives than they are destroying, unlike most of the other polluting...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

You talk about 40% of the vehicles still needing work. How many is that in real terms?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 November 2003

Can I ask also about other environmental measures that you have in other fire stations? I understand that you have got lots of little projects and I was wondering whether there was any thought about pulling them all together and having a real drive on this issue.