Financial Links with or Investment in Nuclear Weapons

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Dear Basildon Borough Council,

In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I'd be most grateful if you can provide me with the following information:

1) Whether your pension fund(s) has any exclusion criteria against indiscriminate weapons, weapons of mass destruction, or nuclear weapons
1a) What such exclusion criteria are, if any
1b) The amount invested in your pension fund

2) Whether you hold any non-pension investments in funds, and whether they have any exclusion criteria against indiscriminate weapons, weapons of mass destruction, or nuclear weapons
2a) What such exclusion criteria are, if any
2b) What amount is currently invested

3) A list of banks currently holding funds for you and an approximate amount held by each bank.

4) Whether the council has any internal exclusion policies relating to investment in, or banking with institution that are financially linked with, indiscriminate weapons, weapons of mass destructions, or nuclear weapons.

4a) What such exclusion policies are

Yours faithfully,
Simon Ramacci

Dpo, Basildon Borough Council

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Dear Basildon Borough Council,

In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I'd be most
grateful if you can provide me with the following information:

1) Whether your pension fund(s) has any exclusion criteria against
indiscriminate weapons, weapons of mass destruction, or nuclear weapons
1a) What such exclusion criteria are, if any
1b) The amount invested in your pension fund

2) Whether you hold any non-pension investments in funds, and whether they
have any exclusion criteria against indiscriminate weapons, weapons of
mass destruction, or nuclear weapons
2a) What such exclusion criteria are, if any
2b) What amount is currently invested

3) A list of banks currently holding funds for you and an approximate
amount held by each bank.

4) Whether the council has any internal exclusion policies relating to
investment in, or banking with institution that are financially linked
with, indiscriminate weapons, weapons of mass destructions, or nuclear
weapons.

4a) What such exclusion policies are

Yours faithfully,
Simon Ramacci

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