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  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [50]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    So he was not in New York, and he has not met Mayor Bloomberg?

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [51]

    • Question by: Murad Qureshi
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    This is a question directed at John Ross. You have mentioned BRIC quite a lot; Russia, India and China. What happened to Brazil? I am trying to work out in your international relation strategy for the GLA and the Mayor's Office whether approaches have been made to the Brazilians, given that they are a major exporter of bio fuels and ethanol. They are clearly a big player in some of the things that we want to do. I am not sure for what reasons they were dropped off the four countries that make up BRIC.

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [52]

    • Question by: Murad Qureshi
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    That was discussed. I am glad to hear that. The other thing, you mentioned a Times article yesterday which I came across as well. Oddly enough, the three cities they mentioned - Singapore, Dubai and Hong Kong - were three cities I have seen on my own travels in recent times. We have colonial links with them. Is it not better to have partnership agreements with cities like that, the new emerging cities, rather than friendship agreements with the Dakars and the Delhis of the world?

  • Costs and Benefits (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    But if we cannot look into the details, nothing is true.

  • Costs and Benefits (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    That is the problem is it not, John?

  • Costs and Benefits (Supplementary) [3]

    • 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?

  • Costs and Benefits (Supplementary) [4]

    • 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...

  • Costs and Benefits (Supplementary) [5]

    • 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.

  • Costs and Benefits (Supplementary) [6]

    • 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.

  • 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?