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• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 14 March 2007

I am interested to get a sense of where relations with Europe - or perhaps I should say the rest of Europe at the risk of alienating some people round the Chamber - figure in this. John [Ross], you mentioned the Euro Zone but that is not the whole of Europe. One could talk of the Euro Zone, the EU and Europe. We have the Brussels office costing something over £400,000 a year. Is it that that is working very well and therefore low profile? I would have hoped that the Mayor would set a high priority on good relations...

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 14 March 2007

That thought had actually occurred to me as well, that it is included in the figures, and I think most people would regard it as international.

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 14 March 2007

So this is a relationship between cities, because I was not sure whether promoting our position within the EU came within promotion, which was one of your three top priorities?

• Reference: 2006/0128-1
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

Can you provide an overview of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games and what you have achieved so far?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

A year before the occasion that Darren mentioned, there was a letter sent to London Citizens to which you, Seb, were a signatory, which said indeed that the strategies would be informed by the commitment to identify a living wage. I accept that is not a commitment but in line with your concerns about transparency, how are Londoners to know to what extent your decisions are informed by that?

• Reference: 2006/0238-1
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

Will you commit to a `Living Wage' for everyone, including contractors and sub-contractors, that is employed by LOCOG? If there are legal obstacles to a commitment, what steps will you take to deal with the need for a `Living Wage'?