Register of Members' Interests Contents


WALKER - WYATT

WALKER, Charles (Broxbourne)
  
  
2.Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Councillor, Wandsworth Borough Council - unremunerated after May 2005.
  
  
WALLACE, Ben (Lancaster and Wyre)
Nil.
  
  
WALLEY, Joan (Stoke­on­Trent North)
  
  
4.Sponsorship or financial or material support
The Lighting Industry Federation pay part of the salary of a researcher in my office who provides support to the All-Party Parliamentary Lighting Group of which I am Joint Chair.
  
  
8.Land and Property
House in Staffordshire Moorlands.
  
  
WALTER, Robert (North Dorset)
  
  
1.Remunerated directorships
Silver Apex Films Ltd; film production.
  
  
2.Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Economic, political and regulatory adviser to Mizuho International PLC; banking. (£55,001-£60,000)
  
  
6.Overseas visits
1-9 January 2006, to India with Conservative Friends of India, to discuss economic and industrial/commercial issues. Visits to Delhi, Mumbai, Bombay and Jaipur. Travel and accommodation expenses met by the Government of India and the Confederation of Indian Industry. (Registered 14 February 2006)
28 May-2 June 2006, to Norway as a member of the All-Party Parliamentary British-Norwegian Group, for meetings in Oslo and visits to a liquid gas project in North Norway and to Svalbard. I was the guest of the Norwegian Government who paid the costs of the visit. (Registered 13 July 2006)
  
  
8.Land and Property
Residential investment property in London.
Farmland in Devon.
  
  
WALTHO, Lynda (Stourbridge)
Nil.
  
  
WARD, Claire (Watford)
Nil.
  
  
WAREING, Robert N. (Liverpool, West Derby)
  
  
6.Overseas visits
1-5 September 2005, to Moscow, to attend the Valdei International Conference. Flights, accommodation and hospitality provided by NOVOSTI (Russian News agency). (Registered 12 October 2005)
  
  
WATERSON, Nigel (Eastbourne)
  
  
2.Remunerated employment, office, profession, etc.
Consultant to firm of Solicitors, Messrs. Watson, Farley and Williams, London.
  
  
5.Gifts, benefits and hospitality (UK)
Honorary membership of the Baltic Exchange.
  
  
6.Overseas visits
14-15 May 2006, to Washington, USA, as guest speaker at a conference organised by the American Association of Retired People (AARP). Flights and hotel paid for by the AARP. (Registered 24 May 2006)
  
  
WATKINSON, Angela (Upminster)
  
  
6.Overseas visits
31 March-6 April 2006, to Egypt with UK-Egypt All-Party Parliamentary Group, to further political relations between the UK and Egypt. The visit was made at the invitation and expense of the Egyptian Government. (Registered 21 April 2006)
  
  
WATSON, Tom (West Bromwich East)
Nil.
  
  
WATTS, David (St. Helens North)
Nil.
  
  
WEBB, Steve (Northavon)
  
  
4.Sponsorship or financial or material support
Intern provided by Christian charity, CARE.
  
  
WEIR, Mike (Angus)
Nil.
  
  
WHITEHEAD, Dr. Alan (Southampton Test)
  
  
8.Land and Property
Share in flat inhabited by my father in Southampton.
  
  
WHITTINGDALE, John (Maldon and East Chelmsford)
  
  
5.Gifts, benefits and hospitality (UK)
15 February 2006, my wife and I attended the Brit Awards at Earls Court as guests of the British Phonographic Industry. (Registered 23 February 2006)
  
  
WICKS, Malcolm (Croydon North)
Nil.
  
  
WIDDECOMBE, Rt. Hon. Ann (Maidstone and The Weald)
  
  
1.Remunerated directorships
Merry Monks Editions Limited; import and sale of gift items.
  
  
2.Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Advance of £100,000 plus performance bonuses from Weidenfeld & Nicholson for third and fourth books.
Booked through Clive Conway Associates:
Series of lectures at theatres around the country, (£15,001-£20,000)
Fee from BBC for series of programmes as a roving agony aunt. (£25,001-£30,000)
Daily Express columnist. (£35.001-£40,000)
Fee for appearance on BBC Belfast 'What Kids Really Want' programme on 4 September 2005, booked through Clive Conway Celebrity Production. (Up to £5,000) (Registered 26 September 2005)
Fee for appearance on the Tubidy Tonight Programme in October 2005. (Up to £5,000) (Registered 16 December 2005)
Donation from Celebrity Who Wants to be a Millionaire, payable to the Safe Haven for Donkeys in the Holy Land. (£5,001-£10,000) (Registered 13 March 2006)
Payment from Liberty Bell for taking part in series called 'Don't Get Me Started'. (Up to £5,000) (Registered 13 March 2006)
Payment from ITV for appearance on the Panel of Celebrity Fit Club. (Up to £5,000) (Registered 13 March 2006)
Payment for an article in Psychologies Magazine. (Up to £5,000) (Registered 13 March 2006)
Payment from Channel 4 for five television appearances on Countdown. (Up to £5,000) (Registered 6 June 2006)
Payment from BBC for appearance on Test The Nation. (Up to £5,000) (Registered 6 June 2006)
  
  
4.Sponsorship or financial or material support
Provision of a student as political researcher by Hull University Politics Course for the duration of the academic year starting September 2005.
  
  
9.Registrable shareholdings
(a)Merry Monks Editions Limited.
  
  
WIGGIN, Bill (Leominster)
Nil.
  
  
WILLETTS, David (Havant)
  
  
1.Remunerated directorships
Chairman of Board of Universal Sensors Ltd, a company developing biosensors for Sensortec Ltd and other companies.
Director of Cawood Scientific Ltd, a company more than 50% owned by Sensortec Ltd.
  
  
2.Remunerated employment, office, profession, etc.
Author.
Economic Adviser to Dresdner Kleinwort Wassenstein, Merchant Bank.
Senior Adviser to Punter Southall, a firm of actuaries, advising on pension issues. (£45,001-50,000)
September 2005, fee from JP Morgan plc for chairing a conference on pensions. (Up to £5,000) (Registered 28 March 2006)
26 April 2006, fee, paid into my Research Account, for lecture at a conference organised by the Communitarian Network in Brussels. (£5,001-£10,000) (Registered 23 May 2006)
  
  
4.Sponsorship or financial or material support
Financial support paid to my Research Account has been received from:
Mr Ian Armitage, businessman (personal donation)
Sir John Beckwith
Mr David Lloyd, of Lloyd's (Animal) Feeds Ltd, Shropshire
(Registered 30 March 2006)
Lord Ashcroft provided research assistance through Media Intelligence Partners.
(Registered 23 May 2006)
Sir John Beckwith is providing, through Conservative Central Office, a donation to assist the employment of an education researcher. (Registered 23 May 2006)
  
  
6.Overseas visits
25-29 September 2005, to Washington DC, as a member of the Board of the Centre for Social Justice to speak at a conference. The Centre for Social Justice contributed towards my travel and hotel expenses. (Registered 28 March 2006)
  
  
8.Land and Property
Flat in West London, from which rental income is received.
  
  
9.Registrable shareholdings
(a)Two hundred and seventy-five shares in Sensortec Ltd; a company developing biosensors.
  
  
WILLIAMS, Rt. Hon. Alan (Swansea West)
Nil.
  
  
WILLIAMS, Betty (Conwy)
  
  
6.Overseas visits
20-26 September 2004, to Western Canada with the All-Party Parliamentary Rail Group, organised by the Rail Freight Group. Travel, including travel within Canada, and accommodation paid for by the Rail Freight Group. (Registered 12 October 2005)
  
  
WILLIAMS, Hywel (Caernarfon)
Nil.
  
  
WILLIAMS, Mark (Ceredigion)
Nil.
  
  
WILLIAMS, Roger (Brecon and Radnorshire)
  
  
2.Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Partner in R. H. Williams; a farming partnership.
  
  
6.Overseas visits
21-22 February 2006, to Bologna, Italy, to visit the Ramazzini Foundation for Oncology, paid for by Granada TV. (Registered 25 April 2006)
  
  
8.Land and Property
Farmland at Tredomen Court, Wales.
Three houses in Tredomen, Brecon, from which rental income is received.
One house in Exmouth, Devon, from which rental income is received.
  
  
WILLIAMS, Stephen (Bristol West)
Nil.
  
  
WILLIS, Phil (Harrogate and Knaresborough)
  
  
6.Overseas visits
1-3 April 2006, to Israel, to visit the Weizmann Institute to look at medical research and climate change issues, paid for by the Weizmann Institute. (Registered 24 April 2006)
  
  
WILLOTT, Jenny (Cardiff Central)
Nil.
  
  
WILLS, Michael (North Swindon)
  
  
2.Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Book contract with Hodder Headline for two works of fiction.
  
  
8.Land and Property
Commercial premises in London from which rental income is received.
  
  
10.Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests
My financial interests and those of my wife are in a blind trust, the details of which have been laid in the House.
  
  
WILSHIRE, David (Spelthorne)
  
  
2.Remunerated employment, office, profession, etc.
Partner, MRS (Moorlands Research Service).
  
  
6.Overseas visits
18-20 November 2005, to Bahrain to address a seminar organised by the Bahrain Businessmen's Association, who paid for my travel and accommodation. (Registered 28 December 2005)
2-6 January 2006, to Taiwan, accompanied by my partner, as guests of the Government of the Republic of China, who met the costs of the visit. (Registered 9 January 2006)
  
  
WILSON, Rob (Reading East)
  
  
1.Remunerated directorships
Pocket Group Limited; telecoms.
  
  
8.Land and Property
A flat in Reading.
  
  
9.Registrable shareholdings
(a)Pocket Group Ltd; telecoms
Health Amico Ltd; health information service
Revolution Ventures Ltd
Vital Imaging (Europe) Ltd; health screening
IX Group; GP polling
  
  
WILSON, Sammy (East Antrim)
  
  
2.Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Member of Belfast City Council.
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Member of Northern Ireland Council for Curriculum Examination and Assessments.
  
  
WINNICK, David (Walsall North)
Nil.
  
  
WINTERTON, Ann (Congleton)
Nil.
  
  
WINTERTON, Sir Nicholas (Macclesfield)
  
  
1.Remunerated directorships
MSB Ltd. (marketing consultancy and the provision of strategic advice and training) (non-executive).
Emerson International Inc. (overseas commercial and residential development) (non-executive).
  
  
4.Sponsorship or financial or material support
Donations to my constituency party received from:
The Emerson Group Ltd
Macclesfield Conservative and Unionist Patrons' Club
John A Downs, Sutton, Nr Macclesfield (personal donation)
  
  
WINTERTON, Rosie (Doncaster Central)
  
  
7.Overseas benefits and gifts
Upgrade from economy to business class by SriLankan Airways on 30 July 2006 and 14 August 2006. (Registered 22 August 2006)
  
  
8.Land and Property
I hold half the proceeds of the sale of a flat (ie £60,123) formerly held in trust for my father. The proceeds are to be used for my father's future benefit.
  
  
WISHART, Peter (Perth and North Perthshire)
  
  
2.Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
I receive royalty payments from EMI/Ridge Records for my recorded works with Runrig, with whom I serve as an unremunerated director.
I receive payments for my published works from the Performing Rights Society.
  
  
5.Gifts, benefits and hospitality (UK)
I am a member of the parliamentary rock group 'MP4' with Greg Knight MP, Kevin Brennan MP and Ian Cawsey MP. Sponsorship of group equipment hire, rehearsal space etc by Freshwater Marketing Communications.
  
  
WOOD, Mike (Batley and Spen)
  
  
8.Land and Property
Terraced property in Oldham, Greater Manchester, let prior to sale.
  
  
WOODWARD, Shaun (St. Helens South)
  
  
4.Sponsorship or financial or material support
Funding for a campaign assistant in St. Helens constituency provided by Mr E W Davidson, chairman of property development company.
  
  
8.Land and Property
Estate in Oxfordshire from which rental income is received.
Flat in France from which rental income is received.
Flat in London from which rental income is received.
House in New York State from which rental income is received.
Land plot in West Indies.
  
  
9.Registrable shareholdings
(b)J. Sainsbury PLC.
  
  
WOOLAS, Phil (Oldham East and Saddleworth)
Nil.
  
  
WRIGHT, Anthony (Great Yarmouth)
  
  
6.Overseas visits
12-16 September 2005, to Austria/Hungary, with the All-Party Parliamentary Rail Group, paid for by the Rail Freight Group. (Registered 29 November 2005)
  
  
WRIGHT, David (Telford)
Nil.
  
  
WRIGHT, Iain (Hartlepool)
  
  
6.Overseas visits
24-29 November 2005, to the United Arab Emirates as guest of the Government of the UAE, who met the costs of flights and accommodation. (Registered 13 December 2005)
27 February-2 March 2006, to Israel and the Palestinian Territories with Labour Friends of Israel to meet members of the Knesset, officials from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Palestinian Authority, the Israeli military, the British Ambassador and other organisations promoting Arab-Israeli co-operation. Travel and accommodation paid for by the Labour Friends of Israel. (Registered 7 March 2006)
  
  
WRIGHT, Jeremy (Rugby and Kenilworth)
  
  
2.Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Barrister, specialising in criminal law, member of No. 5 Chambers, Birmingham. Not currently practising, but receiving some fees for past work.
  
  
WRIGHT, Dr. Tony (Cannock Chase)
  
  
2.Remunerated employment, office, profession, etc.
Joint Editor of Political Quarterly (honorarium only).
Visiting professor, University of Westminster (honorarium only).
  
  
WYATT, Derek (Sittingbourne and Sheppey)
  
  
6.Overseas visits
1-7 January 2006, to Taiwan with delegation from All-Party British-Taiwanese Group. Costs of visit paid by Taiwanese Government. (Registered 9 January 2006)
6-9 February 2006, to Washington, DC, with All-Party Internet Group, to attend the internet caucus meetings, sponsored by Message Labs and RIC. (Registered 10 February 2006)
  
  
10.Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests
Member of International Advisory Committee of Whistling Woods International, Mumbai; a film and television institute. No fees attached.
Consultant (unremunerated) to Planet Sport; a sports company.
Non-executive chairman (unremunerated) of opusmedia sports; an IPTV company (resigned 15 March 2006).
  
  





 
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