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• Reference: 2012/0040-1
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

In your answer to question 1372 / 2012 you state that 'A series of key stakeholder workshops will be organised in June which will allow various parties to discuss their aspirations for the work at King's Cross Gyratory and to highlight the issues that affect local residents.' Given the confusion that has arisen with my constituents regarding works to the King's Cross Gyratory in the past can you please answer each of the following in full: a) Please provide a list of all the 'key stakeholder groups' who will be invited to these workshops b) Please outline details of how...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

Yes, Peter, and that is the sort of response I have been getting for the last couple of years, and luckily I can say to you that the Borough of Lambeth have recently run a most successful campaign using ads; it is the campaign 'Know the Difference'. It is a campaign that Assembly Member Kit Malthouse in his role when he was head of Mayor's Office for Police and Crime (MOPAC) endorsed and commended. It has been taken onboard by other people and the only organisation that did not commit to it locally in Lambeth was TfL. These campaigns were...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Will you accept that you played your role in misleading the public in terms of what you had to say before you were elected? In fact it seems to me, on reading Sir Ian's [Blair] [former Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Service] book, that you were willing to say absolutely anything to get yourself elected. I quote him when he said, 'You cannot go on talking down the fall in crime in London which they have achieved, they need to know you care about them and the way that we can work together.' You looked him straight in the face and replied...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Can I just follow on and pick up the themes about reputational damage and confidence. I wanted to start with the Commissioner, just to ask whether he wanted to use this opportunity to assure us about how widespread the work is, across London, about the issue of confidence. When you think that in the paper yesterday we saw reports that one of your departments sent out a note asking for the images of police in the public domain to be deleted and only images that presented the police in a good light to be used, have you got anything to...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 17 January 2007

Can I then ask what is the current investment in, specifically, tobacco? I ask this because I raised this question in September 2005 with the Mayor, and his answer then was that he was of the opinion that LPFA was looking towards developing an ethical investment policy that would take account of this type of issue. Can I just add, you talked about employment and you said it was fine, if you like, to be investing in BAE (British Aerospace) because it gave us great employment. Is it fine to stay investing in tobacco companies that kill hundreds of thousands...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 17 January 2007

Can I just say that for me the meeting started well but from that last response I am really quite disappointed. Can we go back to the answers to Mike's [Tuffrey] question? If we are talking about openness, then why do we not see something like that in this document? Where would you see this approach that you have outlined in this document? Basically, from what you have said, you have a very narrow definition of a pension fund that seeks to be socially responsible. Let me just say to you, you used the phrase, `It would be lunatic to...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 17 January 2007

How long will that stock remain with your fund?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 17 January 2007

But can you tell me the share? And can I just follow you on and say, if you are thinking long term, are you not aware that tobacco companies, themselves, are disinvesting in the poisonous weed, and are going into different stocks and different products? So, can you not say that on this issue, you, as the Chair of this body, will be working with your officers to be shifting whatever that investment that is currently within the portfolio somewhere else?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 17 January 2007

I did not hear your answer. Is your answer that your fund managers are being asked to move this share out of the current investment portfolio?

• Reference: 2007/0007
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 17 January 2007

What actions are you taking towards a more ethical investment policy by disinvesting from tobacco companies and the arms trade?