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  • Approving and Planning Foreign Travel (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    Is not the truth here that there is no planning? This has mushroomed completely out of control. Until we started asking questions you and the Mayor did not know the volume of it. We are told that since we started asking questions he in particular has been amazed at the volume of travelling going on.

  • Approving and Planning Foreign Travel (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    That is not the point I am raising.

  • Approving and Planning Foreign Travel (Supplementary) [5]

    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    What is behind it is I do not believe there is actually any monitoring and tracking.

  • Approving and Planning Foreign Travel (Supplementary) [7]

    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    Can I return to planning and approval and ask Simon Fletcher what monitoring is done as part of the planning and approval process as to the volume of overseas travel?

  • Approving and Planning Foreign Travel (Supplementary) [18]

    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    I take it that Jenny is bosom buddies with the Mayor!

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [42]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    Richard Barnes (AM): That is a bit strange then because Murziline Parchment and her researcher, Christopher Fleming, went to New York to the New York City Cities Conference on 17 January, and the International Relations Unit prepared a briefing note for her which says -,`Tokyo has been a partner city for some time, but the cities are yet to work together on any projects' and that was January 2006 the agreement was reached. `The Governor of Tokyo' - and I quote directly from the briefing note - `Shiin Taro Ishihara is very right wing. Ken and he have met and...

  • 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?

  • Environmental Impact (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    I just wondered, do you need to do all this travelling for Green issues? We were told that, for example, that Woking was a leading place to go to if you wanted to look at decentralised power generation and, indeed, we employ someone from there to advise us. Would it not be better if you were to seek out examples that were nearer to home and, if necessary, where other world cities have done good jobs, perhaps you seek to bring some of their people over here and employ them in the way that you did with Bob Kiley [former...

  • Achievements from the GLA's Work on the Economic Promotion of London (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    Indeed we do not want a gap year Mayor, and I did say that, but I also said, and so it is a little deplorable if you misquote me and partially quote me, what I also said 'was that Ken Livingstone has a duty to stick up for London and to support London's economy. We support specific foreign trips that encourage investment in the capital. However, after the Mayor's failed junkets to Cuba and Venezuela I will be keeping a close eye on the costs and purpose of the trip so that Londoners get value for money. That is what...

  • Achievements from the GLA's Work on the Economic Promotion of London (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    Then why did the Mayor have to write to John Hutton to clarify the point? Either you knew before you launched the scheme that there was not a problem, or you did not. You did not, because you had to check.