Agenda and minutes

Any county councillor may, by giving notice to the Proper Officer by 9 am two working days before the meeting, ask a question on any matter in respect of the Cabinet Member’s delegated powers.

The number of questions which may be asked by any councillor at any one meeting is limited to two (or one question with notice and a supplementary question at the meeting) and the time for questions will be limited to 30 minutes in total. As with questions at Council, any questions which remain unanswered at the end of this item will receive a written response.

Questions submitted prior to the agenda being despatched are shown below and will be the subject of a response from the appropriate Cabinet Member or such other councillor or officer as is determined by the Cabinet Member, and shall not be the subject of further debate at this meeting. Questions received after the despatch of the agenda, but before the deadline, will be shown on the Schedule of Addenda circulated at the meeting, together with any written response which is available at that time.

Forward Plan Ref: 2011/131

Contact: Nigel Wilson, Assistant Chief Fire Officer Tel: (01865) 855206

Report by Chief Fire Officer (CMDSSC4) .

This report provides the Cabinet Member for Safer and Stronger Communities with details of Oxfordshire Fire & Rescue's (OFRS) performance statistics for fire appliance response times to emergency incidents during 2010/11.

The report provides details of that performance and the actions being undertaken to mitigate risk where because of the location OFRS assets attendance times to incidents have exceeded the 11 and 14 minute targets.

The Cabinet Member for Safer & Stronger Communities is RECOMMENDED to:

(a)  note the report; and

(b)  request the Chief Fire Officer to report back to the Cabinet Member for Safer & Stronger Communities on the Response Standards for 2011/12.

Adopted.