The Register of Members' Financial Interests
As at 11 January 2016

Blackford, Ian (Ross, Skye and Lochaber)

Blackford, Ian (Ross, Skye and Lochaber)

1. Employment and earnings

From 1 December 2015, Chairman of Golden Charter Trust Ltd, Canniesburn Gate, 10 Canniesburn Drive, Bearsden, Glasgow G61 1BF. Paid £6,219.60 quarterly, until further notice. Hours: 8 hrs per quarter. In addition, I will be paid £1,429.82 per day for any additional work (additional payments will be listed below). (Registered 3 June 2015; updated 14 December 2015)

Payment of £1,430, plus expenses, to be made for additional day's work on 14 August 2015. Hours: 7 hrs. (Registered 01 September 2015)

Payment of £1,630, to be made for one hour telephone call on 5 October 2015 and meeting on 6 November 2015. Hours: 6 hrs. (Registered 12 November 2015)

Chairman of Commsworld Plc, Commsworld House, Peffer Place, Edinburgh EH16 4BB. Paid £1,000 a month, from 31 July 2015 until further notice. Hours: 8 hrs per quarter. (Registered 3 June 2015; updated 3 August 2015)

Director of First Seer Ltd, 12A Chester Street, Edinburgh EH3 7RA. First Seer owns our croft business and ancillary activities, for which my wife received a monthly salary of £1,000 until 1 November 2015. Hours: none. (Registered 3 June 2015; updated 17 November 2015)

2. (a) Support linked to an MP but received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation

Name of donor: David Craigen
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £3,000
Donor status: individual
(Registered 03 June 2015)

6. Land and property: (i) value over £100,000 (ii) rental income of over £10,000 a year

Croft, Isle of Skye; (i) and (until September 2015), (ii). (The croft includes two properties which until September 2015 were used for holiday lettings, with rental paid to First Seer.) (Registered 3 June 2015; updated 1 October 2015)

House in Lanark: (i) (Registered 03 June 2015)

7. (ii) Other shareholdings, valued at more than £70,000

Commsworld; telecoms company. (Registered 03 June 2015)

Until 3 November 2015, Corbion NV; food ingredients. (Registered 3 June 2015; updated 3 November 2015)

8. Miscellaneous

Investment portfolio managed on a discretionary basis by Brooks MacDonald Plc. (Registered 03 June 2015)

9. Family members employed and paid from parliamentary expenses

I employ my step-son, John O'Leary, as Caseworker. (Registered 03 June 2015)