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• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 14 March 2007

That is the problem is it not, John?

• 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?

• 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...

• 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.

• 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.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 14 March 2007

I have one more question if you do not mind. I suppose what I would like to see is some really positive and clear climate change advantage from each trip; if you are going to fly, then get some real advantage from it. That is the sort of offsetting that I could accept. Are you concerned at the fact that flights by GLA people have increased more than threefold since 2001, because this does not fit with the Climate Change Action Plan? Are you going to reconsider this policy?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 14 March 2007

I do understand the rationale for what you are doing. However, if you have this cheaper oil it takes the pressure off in a way from looking for other alternatives, whether it is LPG or bio fuels, and this could actually slow down real progress on climate change adaptation.

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 14 March 2007

I just wondered, do you need to do all this travelling for Green issues? We were told that, for example, that Woking was a leading place to go to if you wanted to look at decentralised power generation and, indeed, we employ someone from there to advise us. Would it not be better if you were to seek out examples that were nearer to home and, if necessary, where other world cities have done good jobs, perhaps you seek to bring some of their people over here and employ them in the way that you did with Bob Kiley [former...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 14 March 2007

Are you aware that the Green view of carbon offsetting is that it is actually just like a system of medieval indulgences? You pay the money and you actually still commit the sin.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 14 March 2007

My mistake. Let's talk about Brazil anyway. Brazil has actually got massive amounts of bio fuel from sugar cane. Why hasn't have some sort of arrangement with them, rather than polluting oil?