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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?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

Well, they may choose to take their holidays at home, indeed. I think that it is something that, supporting the Games as we do, we would like to keep an eye on the calculations for. Can I also ask about the Paralympics? We are also enthusiastic about those, and I was glad to hear you mention them earlier, but they have problems with attendance, as well. Presumably this is marketing that needs to go on from now about what a good event the Paralympics is. Is there anything you can say about that?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

My question is whether marketing the parallel Olympics is something that goes into the bid as starting very early indeed.

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

Is there not a bit of a dilemma at the heart of this? I am not sure whether it is the Mayor who can help answer it. On the one hand, we are all passionate about the Games as a nation, and a lot of people are going to be attending. On the other hand, there is a mass exodus from London which frees up space on public transport. Can you have both of those statements?

• Reference: 2004/0306-1
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

What ticketing strategy is in place to avoid the low audience attendance we witnessed in many of the venues in Athens?

• Reference: 2004/0308-1
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

What progress has been made on recruiting and training volunteers as part of the London bid?

• Reference: 2004/0310-1
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

What plans are in place to ensure that the bid venues and facilities are not developed in isolation from local communities? How will the bid serve to address the health, economic and social needs of local communities?

• Reference: 2004/0311-1
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

How do considerations around the Paralympic Games differ from the main Games? What changes if any are being made to the London bid as a result of lessons learnt from the Athens Paralympic Games?