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  • Approving and Planning Foreign Travel (Supplementary) [12]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    I think it would be quite helpful if you could say the criteria that he used for the trips that are accepted and those that are rejected, in terms of the planning side. Obviously at the moment we have understood from your answer to Mr Biggs' questions that you do not accept all the invitations, and presumably you are not proactive, but what are the criteria you use to decide?

  • Approving and Planning Foreign Travel (Supplementary) [14]

    • Question by: Jenny Jones
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    I would like to say right up front I am not trying to score any points here, I would just like some progress. I am well aware that my name is on this list of people who have flown on behalf of the Mayor. What weight is given in the planning for whether or not to take trains rather than planes? It is clear that, for example, two people at least have gone to MIPIM [international property event] in Cannes this week, and the LDA automatically booked a flight because apparently you have to book a long way ahead. So...

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [38]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    I certainly do not characterise Monsieur Delanoe [Mayor of Paris] as an extremist. I do not think he has ever, even in his youth, advocated arming workers' militias or anything of that kind, Mr Ross.

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [40]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    So the situation was different from Mr Ross' example. I want to come to the point.

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [41]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    Did the Ambassador in Cuba accompany the Mayor on his trips?

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [43]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    I think they do rather more than that though. What about the political sections. Any advice asked as to the handling of the trip?

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [45]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    So he did not accompany him?

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [47]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    I am glad for the confirmation that it was said. But what I want to ask is this; have you got an international relations section, or advisors in the Mayor's Office?

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [48]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    OK. I assume somebody - the structure may not matter - is responsible for briefing the Mayor in advance of his going on the foreign trips?

  • Environmental Impact (Supplementary) [1]

    • 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?