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FBU Newport Branch Meeting: Thurs 1st April 2010

FBU NEWPORT BRANCH MEETING THURSDAY 1st APRIL 2010 @ 17:30

SOCIAL CLUB, NEWPORT FIRE STATION

AGENDA:

• Election of Branches nomination for the post of Brigade Chairman

• Reports from all sections:

• Brigade Committee Meetings

• Regional Committee Meetings

• Branch Officials/Departments

• Anything else that members may wish to discuss

Please show your support and attend, as we need a minimum attendance to be able to vote.

If anyone has any queries or questions, please ask us in time so we can try find any answers.

Newport Branch Chair: John Sedgeley

Newport Branch Secretary: Lee Scrimshaw

FiReControl: Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Mr. Malik – incorrect answer?

It appears the Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Mr. Malik is being economical with the truth when when questioned on the FiReControl project:

Stewart Jackson (- Shadow Minister, Communities and Local Government; Peterborough, Conservative)

On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I wish to seek your guidance having already given you prior notice in writing. On 15 March, the Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Mr. Malik, issued an answer to this written parliamentary question from me:

“To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether the regional fire control rooms in London will be operational and live by September 2011.”

The Minister’s reply was as follows:

“Under current planning assumptions the regional fire control centre for London is due to become operational during September 2011. Planning assumptions are currently under review.”-[ Hansard, 15 March 2010; Vol. 507, c. 666W.]

That gave a clear impression that the London fire control centre was still on course to be operational by September 2011. As we know, Mr. Speaker, the Olympics run from July to September 2011. [ Interruption. ] In 2012-I beg your pardon. However, I have subsequently discovered that on 9 March the Minister wrote to the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority to say:

“I have asked the FiReControl team to begin discussions with your project team about how we can move to a planning assumption that London would only join the FiReControl network after the Olympic Games.”

The ministerial code states that

“it is of paramount importance that Ministers give accurate and truthful information to Parliament, correcting any inadvertent error at the earliest opportunity”

and that Ministers should

“be as open as possible with Parliament and the public”.

In this context, the Minister’s reply represents a significant and inadvertent misleading omission in failing to indicate that he was preparing to delay the project. I therefore ask what guidance you can give so that we can bring the Minister to the Dispatch Box to make a full statement to the House.

John Bercow (Speaker)

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman both for his point of order and for giving me advance notice of it. It is not, of course, for me to adjudicate on the accuracy of answers. It is open to the Minister to issue a correction if his answer was erroneous. Otherwise, the hon. Gentleman may seek advice from the Table Office about ways of pursuing this matter.

Source: http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2010-03-22a.38.0&s=firecontrol#g38.5

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