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• Reference: 2011/0083-1
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 July 2011

What are your priorities in relation to the London 2012 City Operations Programme, and what do you think the key challenges and risks will be?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Neale, it was clarity we were looking for. Alan Benson, Head of Housing, met with Members - certainly of my Group - and we welcome that and we feel that we fed in and we can see, in the Strategy, issues of concern to us that have been addressed, but what we wanted to get was what difference this is going to make so that the current situation is not going to really improve; the Mayor does not have a power to actually deal with this issue.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

What actions are you taking in terms of this serious concern that the councils have raised?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

I do not know that that answers the question because, from what you have said, it does not appear that he does have any powers to use directly in relation to this issue about boroughs who do not take up their grant, because you were saying that you would then wait to use the planning powers.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

The last question: it is about Capital Moves. Is it right that all boroughs have signed up to Capital Moves?

• 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?