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• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Can I just ask what you and Visit London are doing about increasing the number of hotel rooms in London? Particularly as we move forward to 2012, it is going to be a very important issue. A very important issue would be the standard of these rooms and also the cost. Will you be investigating hotel companies that actually put their room costs up to an exorbitant rate as they move towards 2012?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

While it is encouraging to hear that fresh moves are afoot to review the master development plan because it does seem to be totally out of kilter with the direction of transport planning, does that mean that the developments in phase one are now totally up for grabs because there is quite a lot of expansion? Is it appropriate that City Airport flights which fly to Paris and Brussels should continue? They seem most inappropriate now we have got a high-speed Eurostar line, which I understand clocked two hours and three minutes to Paris in September.

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

It is not the fault of the education system. The educators will know that if young people have manual skills and are not academic, they can, at the end of their education, push them in the that direction, but there is nowhere to push them to because there are not enough training places. We do not have trade colleges now, we do not have apprenticeship schemes. It is really quite serious and it is about time certain people woke up to this. The Learning and Skills Council have done a very, very poor job in this area and we cannot...