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• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 14 March 2007

I am talking about the monitoring of the volume. John [Ross] has set out very laudable goals for this programme of activity which we would all sign up to. However, the figures tell us that two years ago the GLA was spending just £30,000 on this. That rose to £100,000 last year. It will be something like £300,000 in the current year, by the end of the financial year. The BBC has dubbed this `Ken Air' in terms of the growth of spending on this. So I am trying to square that exponential growth over the last two years with...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 14 March 2007

Both together.

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 14 March 2007

But my point is that two years ago we were spending a tenth of what we now are, and yet these priorities - climate change, economic promotion and the Olympics - were as relevant then, and indeed some of them, the Olympics, were even more relevant. So I do not see, if you square the facts with what you are trying to tell us about the strategy, it does not wash. I am trying to understand what the processes for managing and deciding this are, in particular in relation to Simon [Fletcher] with your overall management responsibility for the Mayor's...

• Reference: 2007/0021-1
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 14 March 2007

What outcomes have been achieved as a result of the GLA's visits to Moscow, Havana, Beijing and Shanghai, and what evidence is available to demonstrate the impact of the GLA's work on these outcomes? Have the Key Performance Indicators been met relating to tourism, higher education, inward investment and film and television?

• Reference: 2007/0001
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 17 January 2007

What is the strategy for selecting which countries to visit and which countries to establish permanent representation in?