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  • Approving and Planning Foreign Travel (Supplementary) [8]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    Right. Are there instances of officers then seeking foreign trips which have been declined by yourself or the Mayor or through the machinery?

  • Approving and Planning Foreign Travel (Supplementary) [9]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    So they are always accepted?

  • Approving and Planning Foreign Travel (Supplementary) [17]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    Slightly harder question then. Can you tell us about a trip which was declined, having been requested through the machinery?

  • 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) [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) [26]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    So if it was the case that the Mayor was in the habit of junketing around the world, this would be a crime committed by many other cities around the world as well?

  • Approving and Planning Foreign Travel

    • Reference: 2007/0017-1
    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    What factors are taken into account when deciding A. whether a trip abroad is necessary, and if so, B. who should go on the trip and what the objectives and itinerary will be?

  • Recent changes at the LDA (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 17 March 2004
    Perhaps to address another part of your presentation, which links to this, you talked about the need for the LDA to have credibility with business, but are there not occasions when business has to have credibility with Londoners and the LDA needs to say that the employment, training and mentoring practices of the private sector in London are short-sighted, are disadvantaging London and, in the end, will disadvantage those businesses? I am being quite strident in pursuing that. Perhaps your Chair should answer that.

  • Recent changes at the LDA (Supplementary) [5]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 17 March 2004
    Is that a priority for the LDA?

  • Recent changes at the LDA (Supplementary) [11]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 17 March 2004
    Which other priority is a lesser priority as a consequence of that? What I am trying to get my head around is the extent to which" Obviously in life you have to pursue a lot of relatively easy targets and priorities, but you need to take some challenging ones on now. I think, and I think a lot of my colleagues and constituents believe, that that is a really vital one for London and we have not done enough on it yet.