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  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [8]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    I do not think the Mayor simply talked about Olympic matters or spent his time purely on Olympic matters, he told us as much himself.

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [15]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    Tell me. Can you help me about this? Did the Mayor meet the Mayor of Havana whilst he was out there?

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [16]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    He did. Did he meet any representatives of the various political prisoners who lobbied the Foreign Office and who have met Foreign Office ministers?

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [17]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    OK. When that was planned was there any liaison discussion with either the Foreign Office or the Department of Trade and Industry about the appropriateness of the trip, who to meet, what might usefully be discussed, or any other background matters? Was advice sought from the Foreign Office or the Department in any respect?

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [19]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    Did anybody draw to the Mayor's attention, prior to his trip at the beginning of November, the Foreign Office's Annual Report on Human Rights launched on 12 October, only a matter of weeks before? Was that drawn to the Mayor's attention before he went?

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [20]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    But he had been invited, Murziline [Parchment] told us, by Lord Moynihan's organisation. Normally when I am invited somebody quite often pays.

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [24]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    That is what I understood. And so they report to you do they?

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [25]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    I do not think I need his CV, Mr Fletcher, because you are simply using up the time. Can I get the question to come to the point otherwise it will not come off of my time. Thank you very much, Mr Fletcher. I am sure he did meet some people in relation to Olympic matters. He also told us about what he was seeing about bio-genetics and other diversity issues - that is his own quotes - to the press. Tell me, did anyone bring to his attention the fact that Cuba appears on the Foreign Office list of...

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [27]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    Did anybody advise him before he claimed that Cuba had a better human rights record and was not open to lectures by Britain or the United States on its human rights? Was he given any briefings as to what was appropriate to say?

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [28]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    Perhaps you might do well to read it, Mr Ross, and see about the concern that the Labour Government, and Mrs [Margaret] Beckett [Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office], express about Cuba's one party nature and its appalling human rights record.