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• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Just one final question; do you have any sort of ball-park figure as to the number of trips that have been made by the Mayor's Office and paid for by Visit London?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Right, and those figures will go back till when?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Final thought; we used to have the London Tourist Office, which we could say was a body that was there simply to actually enhance tourism to this country. You seem now to have created it into something which is completely unmeasurable because you are saying that we do not any longer measure our tourism as such. Visit London is actually wrapped up in far bigger things to do with business, to do with environmental policies. Wouldn't it be simpler if we could actually say, 'Well, this is about promoting tourism and this is why we spent X amount of money...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

You are saying that on occasion they have been paid to travel. Perhaps you could give me an example of where somebody has been to promote London?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Well, their travel is paid for in order to promote London. Could you perhaps give me an example of where a trip has been taken by someone from the Mayor's Office?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Presumably there is a budget within Visit London to pay for people to travel abroad to promote London abroad, is there? How much is that approximately?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Would those people that do that promotional work ever be the Mayor or anybody from his office? His advisors?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

I can understand that, but that does not sound to me like Visit London. That sounds to me like something quite separate from a budget which is about promoting tourism to London.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

When I get this information from you which you have said you are going to provide, I will be able to see that every single visit that has been made by somebody from the Mayoral office will have led to some major advance in our relationship with that country, whether it is to do with tourism or indeed to do with environmental issues? There will always be a major measured purpose with an outcome that you can demonstrate to me?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Would it be possible for you to provide us with the information of what trips have been taken by members of the Mayor's Office and where they have been taken in order to promote London?