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  • Proposal to Designate a Mayoral Development Area (Supplementary) [10]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 17 December 2014
    John Biggs AM: Unfortunately, most of my time has been taken by a Member making unscripted interventions, because we did plan our time for today. I will try to be very brief. I have two areas. One is about what we call ‘cliff edges’ and it relates to the experience of the LLDC, where the purpose of the Olympics and its legacy is to benefit a far wider area. In answer to Stephen Knight [AM] who said that MDC money can be spent outside this area providing it meets its object, of course that begs the question of what the...

  • Approving and Planning Foreign Travel (Supplementary) [8]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    Right. Are there instances of officers then seeking foreign trips which have been declined by yourself or the Mayor or through the machinery?

  • Approving and Planning Foreign Travel (Supplementary) [9]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    So they are always accepted?

  • Approving and Planning Foreign Travel (Supplementary) [17]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    Slightly harder question then. Can you tell us about a trip which was declined, having been requested through the machinery?

  • Approving and Planning Foreign Travel (Supplementary) [19]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    To put this into another context, do you have a sense of the number of foreign cities that visit London on occasion?

  • Approving and Planning Foreign Travel (Supplementary) [23]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    Could you confirm that the Mayor receives numerous requests from cities across the world for him to visit, and that he only accepts a small minority of those, given pressures on his time?

  • Approving and Planning Foreign Travel (Supplementary) [26]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    So if it was the case that the Mayor was in the habit of junketing around the world, this would be a crime committed by many other cities around the world as well?

  • Approving and Planning Foreign Travel

    • Reference: 2007/0017-1
    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    What factors are taken into account when deciding A. whether a trip abroad is necessary, and if so, B. who should go on the trip and what the objectives and itinerary will be?