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  • Key Priorities (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: Murad Qureshi
    • Meeting date: 13 January 2010
    Harvey, can I bring you back to the beginning when you mentioned the LDA objectives and one of them being international promotion? It is interesting, over Christmas reading things like The Economist, it was suggesting that the developing countries have come out of the recession much better than anyone had expected and that this has profound consequences on the rest of the world, including London. Hearing that, I understand that we do not now have an office in Delhi or Bombay, one of the leading BRIC countries and one of the countries that we can expect to trade with in...
  • LDA Priorities (Supplementary) [10]

    • Question by: Murad Qureshi
    • Meeting date: 18 March 2009
    Thank you, Chair. Just following on from Val [Shawcross] on the training programmes, the LDA have withdrawn the funding from King's Cross Construction Training Centre, and Camden Council has been forced to step in. Are you aware that the funding that Camden has been able to provide is less than that which was originally provided by the LDA? Secondly, how is possible to justify such cuts in skills training in an area of such acute economic deprivation, and given that King's Cross is a strategic site, why should it be just the people of Camden who fund the training centre...
  • LFPA Statement of Investment Principles (Supplementary) [6]

    • Question by: Murad Qureshi
    • Meeting date: 17 January 2007
    I just wanted to go into the whole area of possible exposure to hedge funds, and what that may mean for our pension holders. Both directly and indirectly, our exposure to the derivative market is of concern to a lot of people, given how much coverage it gets in the business pages.
  • LFPA Statement of Investment Principles (Supplementary) [8]

    • Question by: Murad Qureshi
    • Meeting date: 17 January 2007
    Which mirrors much of the behaviour of the hedge funds we have got in London, because I mean London has become a centre of all that. I am just concerned whether, to the extent of our exposure, both directly and indirectly, and to what extent that limits our ability to be ethical as well.