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  • 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...

  • 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) [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?