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• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 17 January 2007

Our pensioners, Mr Newton, I am sure will take great heart I have to say from what I regard as a very responsible stand and your defence of their interests so I do congratulate you for that. One thing occurred to me. Obviously some people round here have talked about ethical investment and ethical being from their own stance. I totally accept and respect their position. Is there a possibility - and I certainly would not want such a thing; I do not want my pension being played as part of politics, even with things that I believe in personally...

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 17 January 2007

I think the main point is that if we do have even minor falls this ongoing amount of money taken from pensioners in Britain will have an impact. Do you still have forecasts and estimates for what will happen ongoing, say over the next five to ten years as a result of it?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 17 January 2007

If it were removed, how helpful would that be? Say it were removed next year, how helpful would that be to the London Pensions Fund?

• Reference: 2007/0009
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 17 January 2007

By how much has the current value of the fund been reduced as a consequence of the removal in 1997 of tax credits on share dividends and what impact has this had on the value of pensions paid by the fund?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Then, of course, the thing you do not say during that ' the thing you do not say ' is that a large amount of that money has been wasted by yourselves, because these people started and got to heads of agreement terms last year on deals, which then incurred large amounts of lawyers', managers', project managers', and accountants' fees, and then you were the ones who stalled on it. I have a detail here of almost £200,000 worth of work done, which you have wasted. What is the most absurd thing ' and the fact that you are saying...

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

How much has the LDA paid on lawyers? How much has the LDA paid on lawyers?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

They were lobbying to get their businesses. They were lobbying.

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Mayor, how can you honestly suggest that these people would lobby against the Games? They were lobbying for their interests. Many of them stand to go bust. Many of them stand to genuinely lose their business. I am a businessman. Sally Hamwee (Chair): I said a short question. Damian Hockney (AM): I know if I were offered that compensation, I would be dead.

• Reference: 2005/0319-1
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

There have been calls from politicians in the House of Commons that the unquantified benefits of the Games should be shared by the whole of the UK. Have there been any offers made to you to share the multibillion pound cost of the Games.

• Reference: 2005/0322-1
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Do you think there may be the perception of a conflict of interest in that one of the LDA board members, is Managing Director of a company whose pension fund owns substantial property on the Marshgate Lane estate? (Mary Reilly/Tony Winterbottom)