• 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: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

OK, I think that would be helpful because then that clarifies the additional cost in relation to that. One of the concerns I have here is that we seem to have a potential for not conflict but confusion. We have got Visit London. Why are we spending an extra £6 million on London Unlimited?

• 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

Right, and those figures will go back till when?

• 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: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

According to figures £14.6 million is being paid to Visit London and another £6.7 million for London Unlimited. What evidence have you got that there is a direct relationship between their activities and the increase in tourism in London?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Are you saying that the increase of 1.3 million more visitors to London last year is a direct result of this investment?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Can I just go back to the water transport issue which, David, you raised? I am glad you mentioned Prescott Lock, which was welcomed certainly by many members of the London Waterways Commission. It is just that we would like to see more specific targets to drive that and I think that would give it a lot more focus. Also on water transport, there are parties like the Port of London Authority which are keen to look at passenger movements from the Olympic site to the O2 site; they do think that would encourage boat services north to south of...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Is that over and above the 20% renewable target?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

You just mentioned wind power and I gather there is an issue about possible permission for a wind turbine on the site. Will you be able to hit your 20% renewable targets if the wind turbine is turned down? Have I misunderstood that issue?