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• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

This is a question to Mary (Reilly). It is about the training and employment framework that you have mentioned already. I recently visited Canary Wharf, where a training centre was set up on site by the Canary Wharf Group with the Universities & Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) and with Lewisham College, which seems to me to be an excellent example of good practice about how workers who have low skills can go on site and, during working hours, get that extra help they need. I know that UCAS is pressing for a similar site to be set up in the...

• Reference: 2005/0321-1
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

The LDA offered a firm in Marshgate Lane a site in Leyton to relocate to. The LDA bought the Leyton site a year ago at £886,667 per acre. They are now asking £1.1 million per acre. That's an increase in value of 24%. One of the companies in East London being forced to relocate bought their current site at Marshgate Lane in 2000 for £1.075 million and spent £300,000 on various improvements, making a total cost of just under £1.4 million. The LDA have offered £1.5 million for it, five years later. So the LDA are saying The Marshgate Lane...

• Reference: 2005/0304-1
• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Can you give an update on the negotiations with local businesses in the Lower Lea Valley? How many have settled, how many will need to be Compulsory purchased?

• Reference: 2005/0333-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

How many local firms in East London do you think will be able to meet the requirements to fit within the LOCOG's Sustainable Management System? What plans are being made to ensure that local companies are provided with practical help and guidance so that they a) understand the tender requirements; b) are provided with training and support to complete the necessary tender documents?

• Reference: 2004/0409-1
• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

What are the notification procedures for mass evacuation? Have these been tested?

• Reference: 2004/0412-1
• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

What implications for resilience in Central London do the proposals in the draft 2nd London Safety Plan have?

• Reference: 2004/0372-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Are you satisfied that businesses in London have adequate plans in place to cope with a major incident; what steps are being taken to spread best practice advice on planning for an emergency amongst the private sector, and how much co-operation has there been from business to date?

• Reference: 2004/0378-1
• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Who is ultimately in charge in the event of a terrorist attack or a major incident in London, including managing the immediate aftermath and longer-term recovery?

• Reference: 2004/0379-1
• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

When was the last training exercise involving all the emergency services in London held? How are boroughs included in such exercises? For what range of scenarios has planning and training taken place, and have these included scenarios in outer London?

• Reference: 2004/0383-1
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

How many emergency services staff will be available at short notice to respond to a major incident, including from the armed services? How many of these will have been trained to respond to a CBRN incident, and is it compulsory for emergency services staff to respond to a CBRN incident?