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  • Approving and Planning Foreign Travel (Supplementary) [10]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    So you have worked this out then. Why can't we have the figures? I just feel we need to know how much these services will cost and what they are. We are getting US$16 million.250,000 people, on the basis of the Mayor's statement this morning, will get travel concessions worth £280. Of course not all are going to take them up, but even if 80% take them up, that will take up the whole of that US$32 million.

  • Approving and Planning Foreign Travel (Supplementary) [13]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    How much? Very small? What does very small mean? Are you saying less than £1 million, between £1 million and £5 million, up to the value of the money we are getting? How much?

  • Costs and Benefits (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    But if we cannot look into the details, nothing is true.

  • Costs and Benefits (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    That is the problem is it not, John?

  • Costs and Benefits (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    Finally, Chair, if you would indulge me, could you just provide us at some point with a list of the companies and jobs which have actually come as a result of our offices in China?

  • Costs and Benefits (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    When you say cost effective, how many jobs have actually been created and how many are you expecting to be created? Can you actually specify them? How many companies have actually done business as a direct result, or are doing business? It is very easy to talk about media value, but media value is often just coverage. What is that? I have asked a few times for an outline of what that is. Is it just a picture on TV of the Mayor arriving in Beijing and that is the equivalent of £10,000 worth of media coverage? Is it media...

  • Costs and Benefits (Supplementary) [5]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    It is good for the Mayor and for yourselves but businessmen do not take that on board.

  • Costs and Benefits (Supplementary) [6]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    But that does not bring business. It is those people over there that bring the business.

  • Approving and Planning Foreign Travel (Supplementary) [25]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    John, you mentioned a few minutes ago about Venezuela, what an excellent investment it was. I will just make an observation and that is this; you talk about it as being an investment but the problem is we will get a revenue of £16 million/US$ 32 million, in return for services provided that we do not know about, and therefore we do not know what they are, how much they are, nobody has told us. Then you announce the use of that money for 250,000 travel concessions, worth what the Mayor says today in his statement is £280. That is...

  • Approving and Planning Foreign Travel (Supplementary) [27]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    So how much are the services provided to Venezuela going to cost? How much are they going to cost?