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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?

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [49]

    • Question by: Murad Qureshi
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    I can give you two or three reasons why. For example, the old colonial links do mean the Stock Exchanges between London and Hong Kong are quite well established. Dubai; the gold markets are critical there. You would be surprised how much the Asian community uses them out there when they are travelling through. Singapore clearly is the hub of East Asia.

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [51]

    • Question by: Murad Qureshi
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    This is a question directed at John Ross. You have mentioned BRIC quite a lot; Russia, India and China. What happened to Brazil? I am trying to work out in your international relation strategy for the GLA and the Mayor's Office whether approaches have been made to the Brazilians, given that they are a major exporter of bio fuels and ethanol. They are clearly a big player in some of the things that we want to do. I am not sure for what reasons they were dropped off the four countries that make up BRIC.

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [52]

    • Question by: Murad Qureshi
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    That was discussed. I am glad to hear that. The other thing, you mentioned a Times article yesterday which I came across as well. Oddly enough, the three cities they mentioned - Singapore, Dubai and Hong Kong - were three cities I have seen on my own travels in recent times. We have colonial links with them. Is it not better to have partnership agreements with cities like that, the new emerging cities, rather than friendship agreements with the Dakars and the Delhis of the world?

  • 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?

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [23]

    • Question by: Murad Qureshi
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    OK. I have clearly suggested where I think there is scope, particularly - whatever the stage of development they are at, I certainly think, given they are exporting bio fuels in a big way.