Register of Members' Interests Contents


ABBOTT - AUSTIN

ABBOTT, Diane (Hackney North and Stoke Newington)
1.Remunerated directorships
Smithville Associates; a training consultancy.
2.Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
Occasional lecturing and journalism.
 
ADAMS, Gerry (Belfast, West)
Mr. Adams has not taken his seat.
 
 
ADAMS, Irene (Paisley North)
Nil.
 
AINGER, Nicholas (Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire)
2.Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Occasional broadcasting and written article fees.
6.Overseas visits
16-17 October 2000, to Denmark with the Associate Parliamentary Renewable and Sustainable Energy Group (PRASEG) to witness the Danish Wind Farm Sector and meet with senior members of the Danish Government Energy Agency and the Danish Wind Industry. Flight and accommodation paid for by National Wind Power UK. (Registered 2 November 2000)
 
AINSWORTH, Peter (East Surrey)
5.Gifts, benefits and hospitality (UK)
In my capacity as Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, I receive frequent invitations to attend cultural and sporting events; the value of the hospitality I receive on some of these occasions may exceed £235.
31 December 1999, my wife, three children and I were guests of the New Millennium Experience Company at the Millennium Dome. (Registered 17 February 2000)
I have received, unsolicited, classical CD's from the Peter Moores Foundation whose aggregate retail value may exceed the threshold for registration. (Registered 10 November 2000)
6.Overseas visits
12-13 October 2000, to Dublin, sponsored by the British Tourist Authority, who paid hotel and travel costs. (Registered 10 November 2000)
 
AINSWORTH, Robert (Coventry North East)
Nil.
 
ALEXANDER, Douglas (Paisley South)
2.Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Associate, Digby Brown, Solicitors, Glasgow.
Occasional contributions to various newspapers and broadcasting.
5.Gifts, benefits and hospitality (UK)
26 February 2001, my wife and I attended the Brit Awards, as the guests of the British Phonographic Institute. (Registered 7 March 2001)
24 March 2001, ticket and hospitality at Scotland v Belgium football match at Hampden as guest of Trinity Mirror Group. (Registered 2 April 2001)
6.Overseas visits
9-12 November 2000, to United States of America for conference organised by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. My travel and hotel costs were met by the conference organisers. (Registered 20 November 2000)
8.Land and Property
Rental of building attached to my house.
Rental of flat in Edinburgh
10.Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests
Member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Scottish Public Policy (non-remunerated).
Member of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh) Liaison Committee (non-remunerated).
Director of the CARD Carers' Centre, Paisley (unremunerated).
 
ALLAN, Richard (Sheffield Hallam)
2.Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Occasional fees for broadcasting, writing, speeches, lectures and opinion surveys.
Member of Harris Parliamentary Panel. (£1-£1,000). The fee is donated to my constituency party.
10.Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests
Director (unpaid) of the Sheffield City Trust, company set up by Sheffield City Council to run a range of facilities such as sports and entertainment venues and elderly persons' homes which it formerly owned.
 
ALLEN, Graham (Nottingham North)
10.Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests
I hold shares in Nottingham Forest FC.
 
AMESS, David (Southend West)
2.Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Occasional media interviews.
Parliamentary Adviser to the Caravan Club. (£1,001-£5,000)
 
ANCRAM, Rt. Hon. Michael (Devizes)
1.Remunerated directorships
Portzim Ltd.; family estate company in Roxburghshire.
2.Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Minority limited partner in Bonny Extra (Paper) Limited Partnership; provision of consultancy services for the development of waste paper recovery procedures.
4.Sponsorship or financial or material support
Use of car provided by the Rover Group (in my capacity as Chairman of the Conservative Party).
5.Gifts, benefits and hospitality (UK)
3 February 2001, lunch and ticket to the England Wales rugby match in Cardiff as the guest of British Gas. (Registered 21 March 2001)
8.Land and Property
A small tenanted estate and a partnership in a tenanted farm in Roxburghshire.
9.Registrable shareholdings
(a)Portzim Ltd.
 
ANDERSON, Donald (Swansea East)
2.Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Member of Harris Parliamentary Panel. (£1-£1,000). Fees are paid to charity.
Broadcasting receipts, which are paid to charity.
6.Overseas visits
12-14 May 2000, to Malta accompanied by my wife, to deliver a lecture on British foreign policy, paid for by the Maltese Government. (Registered 15 May 2000)
24-27 November 2000, to Israel accompanied by my wife, to meet Israeli and Palestinian leaders at the invitation of the Chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs Committee. (Registered 12 December 2000)
10.Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests
Consultant to the Royal Society of Chemistry (money paid direct to charity).
Director (unpaid) of the Anglo-Austrian Society.
 
ANDERSON, Janet (Rossendale and Darwen)
5.Gifts, benefits and hospitality (UK)
In my capacity as Minister for Tourism, Film and Broadcasting, I receive frequent invitations to attend arts, cultural and sporting events; and the value of the hospitality extended to me on some of these occasions is probably greater than £235.
 
ARBUTHNOT, James (North East Hampshire)
2.Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
Barrister (non-practising).
Member of Lloyd's.
Categories of business underwritten - CBS Bespoke: All categories.
6.Overseas visits
3-5 November 2000, to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, to attend a conference as guests of the British-Spanish Tertulias. Costs met jointly by our hosts and by grant from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. (Registered 28 November 2000)
 
ARMSTRONG, Hilary (Durham, North West)
5.Gifts, benefits and hospitality (UK)
Tickets for myself and my husband to watch Sunderland AFC on four occasions during 2000 from the Chairman of Sunderland AFC. (Registered 3 January 2001)
30 November 2000, dinner and seats for the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle, for myself and my husband as guests of Northumbria Water. (Registered 3 January 2001)
 
 
ASHDOWN, Rt. Hon. Paddy (Yeovil)
1.Remunerated directorships
Time Computers Ltd. (non-executive, with specific interest in e-commerce matters)
UK Board of Independent News and Media.
Such remunerations as are attached to the above posts will not be received by me personally but will be supplementing my office costs allowance and in political and charitable contributions.
2.Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Occasional payment received for newspaper and magazine articles, television appearances, and for talks given to companies and other bodies.
9 December 1999, fee for a speech to a paper company paid by Celebrity Speakers.
23-24 March 2000, fee for a speech to an information technology company paid by Performing Artistes.
Contract with Penguin Books for publication of my diaries.
Consultant on venture capital in the human and knowledge management areas to Catalyst Fund Management & Research Ltd.
Such remunerations as are attached to the above post will not be received by me personally but will be supplementing my office costs allowance and in political and charitable contributions.
20 November 2000, fee for a speech to an international financial company paid by Speakers for Business.
6.Overseas visits
22 January 2000, to Paris to attend the 'Your Future in Europe' seminar, all travel and accommodation costs for my wife and myself were met by the seminar organisers. (Registered 1 March 2000)
10-12 March 2000, to Paris to attend a conference organised by the New Atlantic Initiative on Balkan strategies. All costs were met by the conference organisers. (Registered 14 March 2000)
17-21 July 2000, to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, on a fact-finding visit. All costs were met by the Open Society Institute, Washington DC. (Registered 25 July 2000)
6-12 October 2000, to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Bosnia Herzegovina, on a fact-finding visit. All costs were met by the Open Society Institute, Washington DC. (Registered 17 October 2000)
21-22 November 2000, to Vienna to attend various events publicising the publication of my book. All costs were met by the British Bookshop in Vienna. (Registered 8 December 2000)
16-19 February 2001, to Geneva to attend various events publicising the publication of my book. All costs were met by the British Residents Association in Geneva. (Registered 28 February 2001)
18-23 March 2001, to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Bosnia Herzegovina, on a fact-finding visit. All costs were met by the Open Society Institute, Washington DC. (Registered 24 March 2001)
10.Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests
I own shares in Westland PLC in order to attend the AGM, whose value is less than £100.
 
ASHTON, Joe (Bassetlaw)
2.Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Author of "Red Rose Blues", published by Macmillan publishers, September 2000.
9.Registrable shareholdings
(b)Sheffield Wednesday Football Club Ltd.
 
ATHERTON, Candy (Falmouth and Camborne)
2.Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Member of Political Opinion Panel of BPRI (Business Planning and Research International). (£1-£1,000)
Member of Harris Political Opinion Panel. (£1-£1,000)
10.Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests
Trustee on the Board of Directors for Carn Brea Recreation Centre, Cornwall, a charitable trust (unremunerated).
 
ATKINS, Charlotte (Staffordshire Moorlands)
2.Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Occasional fees from opinion polls.
Occasional fees from broadcasting.
 
ATKINSON, David (Bournemouth East)
2.Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Member of Political Opinion Panel of BPRI (Business Planning and Research International). (£1-£1,000)
Occasional payment for addressing seminars, conferences and other speeches.
6.Overseas visits
9-11 September, to Gibraltar, to attend National Day and to have meetings with the Prime Minister and opposition leaders, as guest of the Government of Gibraltar. (Registered 2 November 2000)
9-13 October, to Russia, as a member of the All-Party British-Russia Group, to visit the Priobskaye Oil Field and to meet leading members of the State Duma in Moscow, sponsored by Yukos Oil. (Registered 2 November 2000)
 
ATKINSON, Peter (Hexham)
2.Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Parliamentary and public affairs consultant, Countryside Alliance. (£10,001-£15,000)
Freelance journalism.
Member of the political opinion panel of BPRI (Business Planning and Research International). (£1-£1,000). The fees received are paid directly to Hexham Conservative Association.
4.Sponsorship or financial or material support
Research work provided by Countryside Alliance.
5.Gifts, benefits and hospitality (UK)
15 January 2001, a day's shooting and overnight hotel accommodation for my wife and me, near Kelso, as the guest of the Tobacco Manufacturers' Association. (Registered 23 January 2001)
 
AUSTIN, John (Erith and Thamesmead)
6.Overseas visits
13-17 January 2001, to Kuwait with the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Euro-Arab Co-operation, at the invitation of the Speaker of the National Assembly. All travel and accommodation costs met by the Kuwait National Assembly. (Registered 6 February 2001)
10.Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests
Director (unremunerated), London Marathon Charitable Trust Ltd.
Trustee (unremunerated), Greenwich MIND.
Director and Trustee (unremunerated) of the Crossness Engines Trust.



 
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