Departmental Annual Report Mr. Hayes To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what high risk items were identified in Firelink and replaced, as referred to on page 45 of her Department's annual report for 2006. Angela E. Smith The items are listed in the following table. The Firelink operational continuity programme involves safeguarding those elements of the existing fire and rescue service's ageing radio systems, identified through a risk-assessment process as being at a high risk of failure, until replacement by the new national Firelink digital radio system. Most of this legacy equipment is in excess of 15 years old. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Legacy equipment—high risk |Replacement equipment |Number| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |HS400 Frequency Reference |Dalman Satsync Frequency Reference|250 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Pye RLA simulcast control equipment |Dalman Cosmos 4 control equipment |15 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Marconi/Pye Base Station |PMR Products K4 Base Station |75 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Various voting system |PRN4004 voting system |17 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Remote control for paging |Paging switch |62 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Various VHF and UHF link |Tait T800 VHP and UHF link |60 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Mobile radio (various) |PMR products or Cleartone radio |459 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |FL5000 Microwave Link |Westica Microwave Link |8 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Note: Original equipment has been replaced with same functionality equipment where possible.| | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mr. Hayes To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much the fire safety campaigns targeted at ethnic communities to which she refers on page 62 of her Department's annual report for 2006 cost. Angela E. Smith Communities and Local Government invested £120,000 in the 2006 fire safety campaign targeted at ethnic communities.