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• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 January 2007

You have mentioned there that the opinion of the final beneficiaries is important in this calculation. How would you go about ascertaining that opinion, because there has been a fair difference of it around the table today?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 17 January 2007

Can I just ask you to confirm you're responsible investment stamps, and what I would regard as a false choice between returns and responsible investment? If we cast this less in terms of not investing in so called bad things, and more in terms of investing in good things that will contribute to long term sustainablity, is that a summary of your position? My colleague, Jennette [Arnold] has rightly given me some evidence to say that ethical investment can outperform mainstream, but my hunch is that is ethical as defined in terms of sustainable, rather than screening out the bad...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 17 January 2007

So if you are in a position to put our money behind, as it were, good things going forward, just picking up this particular question in terms of responding to lobbying, crudely, what role does the Mayor play - we have touched on the Board appointments - but in terms of saying, `Well, look, these are our strategies for London, these are the things that we think are going to make London and the wider economy sustainable'?. What attention do you pay to GLA strategies for example?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 17 January 2007

I just want to follow up on the issues here. If there were blanket bans or your opportunity to invest was fettered in any way, shape or form, would that throw off the 15 year plan to fully funding the plan?

• 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: 2007/0006
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 17 January 2007

According to the LFPA Statement of Investment Principles LFPA's investment managers are required to: 'demonstrate that the content, monitoring and effectiveness of their socially responsible investment policies and procedures progressively improves over time.' Can you demonstrate this to us?

• 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?

• Reference: 2007/0008
• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 17 January 2007

How do the members of the LPFA react to calls from any source that investment decisions made on the fund's behalf be made on grounds other than potential return?

• 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?