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Achievements from the GLA's Work on the Economic Promotion of London (Supplementary) [14]

  • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
  • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
Of course there are good things happening, but it is not as a result of a planned activity.

Achievements from the GLA's Work on the Economic Promotion of London (Supplementary) [13]

  • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
  • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
Simon [Fletcher] a moment ago helpfully said that he was not claiming the credit on behalf of the Mayor for everything that is going on.

Achievements from the GLA's Work on the Economic Promotion of London (Supplementary) [12]

  • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
  • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
Is not the truth here that in the second term the Mayor and his senior staff have got the travel bug? If it was not for questions from us none of this retrofitted justification would be coming out. Is it not also the truth that you are neglecting things that matter to London like putting India after Venezuela and spending time in Cuba? Is it not time that the Mayor got back to sticking up for London and putting his time and effort in things that matter to London?

Achievements from the GLA's Work on the Economic Promotion of London (Supplementary) [11]

  • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
  • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
I hope you are not wilfully misrepresenting my views. My views are that we should of course engage internationally where there is a clear case for London, and I am trying to establish what is the planning process, what are the objectives, what are the KPIs.

Achievements from the GLA's Work on the Economic Promotion of London (Supplementary) [10]

  • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
  • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
You are all doing an admirable job of retrofitting justification to all this activity. What I would like to ask you for, and I would appreciate having it in writing afterwards, is in relation to the India trip - which I absolutely agree India should be on our map - can we have the goals set out in writing, and the KPIs, so that at least now, thanks to Assembly scrutiny, we can get some strategy behind this activity? Will you give us that?

Achievements from the GLA's Work on the Economic Promotion of London (Supplementary) [9]

  • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
  • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
However, nowhere in the Mayor's objectives, nowhere in his manifesto commitments was securing cheap oil 'mentioned.

Achievements from the GLA's Work on the Economic Promotion of London (Supplementary) [8]

  • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
  • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
No, no. A gap year Mayor.

Achievements from the GLA's Work on the Economic Promotion of London (Supplementary) [7]

  • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
  • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
Simon, you are misunderstanding the point I am trying to make.

Achievements from the GLA's Work on the Economic Promotion of London (Supplementary) [6]

  • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
  • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
But what you have not established is any causal link between the tenfold increase in spending on trips by all your staff and the achievements of things like the position of New York in the financial markets.

Achievements from the GLA's Work on the Economic Promotion of London (Supplementary) [5]

  • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
  • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
Yes, but what we are talking about this morning is the tenfold increase in the expenditure in the GLA on these overseas trips. We are trying to understand what the justification is and the KPIs backing that up. We look in our Plan but the only one is tourism which does not apply, as far as I am aware, in terms of Venezuela for example.
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