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  • Achievements from the GLA's Work on the Economic Promotion of London (Supplementary) [12]

    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    Is not the truth here that in the second term the Mayor and his senior staff have got the travel bug? If it was not for questions from us none of this retrofitted justification would be coming out. Is it not also the truth that you are neglecting things that matter to London like putting India after Venezuela and spending time in Cuba? Is it not time that the Mayor got back to sticking up for London and putting his time and effort in things that matter to London?

  • Achievements from the GLA's Work on the Economic Promotion of London (Supplementary) [13]

    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    Simon [Fletcher] a moment ago helpfully said that he was not claiming the credit on behalf of the Mayor for everything that is going on.

  • Achievements from the GLA's Work on the Economic Promotion of London (Supplementary) [14]

    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    Of course there are good things happening, but it is not as a result of a planned activity.

  • Achievements from the GLA's Work on the Economic Promotion of London (Supplementary) [15]

    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    Can I just deal with the John Hutton point. It is indeed welcome. What is not welcome is it took a question from me, after the Mayor had announced the scheme, for anybody in your office to wake up to the fact there was an issue here that needed to be checked out.

  • Approving and Planning Foreign Travel (Supplementary) [19]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    To put this into another context, do you have a sense of the number of foreign cities that visit London on occasion?

  • Approving and Planning Foreign Travel (Supplementary) [20]

    • Question by: Jenny Jones
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    What I would like to know is, next time we get a list like this - I am not talking about finding out the past but, in future - could we have an indication of whether the trip was by train or plane or bike or pedicab or whatever? Is that possible? Is it possible for you to say to the LDA, `New times, new regimes, in terms of climate change, and can they think about trains more'?

  • Approving and Planning Foreign Travel (Supplementary) [21]

    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    I am talking about the monitoring of the volume. John [Ross] has set out very laudable goals for this programme of activity which we would all sign up to. However, the figures tell us that two years ago the GLA was spending just £30,000 on this. That rose to £100,000 last year. It will be something like £300,000 in the current year, by the end of the financial year. The BBC has dubbed this `Ken Air' in terms of the growth of spending on this. So I am trying to square that exponential growth over the last two years with...

  • Approving and Planning Foreign Travel (Supplementary) [22]

    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    Both together.

  • Approving and Planning Foreign Travel (Supplementary) [23]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    Could you confirm that the Mayor receives numerous requests from cities across the world for him to visit, and that he only accepts a small minority of those, given pressures on his time?

  • Approving and Planning Foreign Travel (Supplementary) [24]

    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    But my point is that two years ago we were spending a tenth of what we now are, and yet these priorities - climate change, economic promotion and the Olympics - were as relevant then, and indeed some of them, the Olympics, were even more relevant. So I do not see, if you square the facts with what you are trying to tell us about the strategy, it does not wash. I am trying to understand what the processes for managing and deciding this are, in particular in relation to Simon [Fletcher] with your overall management responsibility for the Mayor's...