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• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

London City Airport; roughly we spend £7 million on policing - I think this is public information - and we are hoping to recover £5 million of that £7 million from them. That is not unreasonable.

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Thank you, Chair. I think you have put your finger on it when you say partly a problem of transition. My experience has been that the public and the elected representatives of the public are not yet quite clear how the new system should be working, and there is perhaps some hanging on to old consultative contact structures that could really be burned back in order to save police time, because there is some concern about use of police time in the evenings if everybody was clear about how they could access the new consultative and dialogue framework. I would...

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

I wholly agree that this is best served to get sorted out pragmatically and at borough level, but can I suggest that it might be helpful, if it is not already happening, for the MPA to take the lead in discussion with what used to be the ALG, London Councils, as I think it is now, to try and start some thinking about how to rationalise what is becoming an increasingly complex consultative structure with often the same people going to lots of meetings saying exactly the same thing.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

If you are going to consult people, what would stop you closing a police station that was earmarked for closure?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Well, what would stop you closing any police station?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

I was delighted to hear you talk about how important consultation is and, as you know, it has been suggested that the Camberwell Green Police Station, Southwark might close less than two years after it has reopened. Are you saying if enough people in Southwark beg you to keep that police station open, that is what you would do? What does consultation mean to you?

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

The main thrust of the question is about the Government recognising the unique need to protect its capital city from terrorist and major incidence attacks. Is there any sign at all that there is any recognition?

• 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?

• 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: 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?