Firecontrol Project

EDM number 1800 in 2008-09, proposed by Andrew Dismore on 01/07/2009.
Categorised under the topic of Fire services.

That this House notes the recently expressed concerns of the Fire Brigades Union that the FireControl Project should have been completed by the end of 2007; further notes that the Government claimed it would make considerable savings, paying for itself within five years and improve on the current system; further notes that the project is considerably over budget and will make no savings, continues to face considerable technical challenges and is now facing further delays which means the full national network may not be in place and rigorously tested in time for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games; further notes the concerns of the Chief Fire Officers Association that the lack of detail in the project requirements will jeopardise the project meeting the recently revised timescales and that further delays will threaten the operational continuity of existing control rooms, including the lack of capacity to meet the transitional requirements within the declared project timescales; and therefore calls for the project to be stopped and for existing control rooms to be swiftly upgraded as necessary to ensure the communications benefits sought by Government are delivered by local fire brigade control rooms as they will be in Scotland and are in Wales without the need for regionalisation.

This motion has been signed by a total of 157 MPs.