BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD

REGISTER OF INTERESTS OF BOARD MEMBERS

British Library Board Secretariat


REGISTER OF INTERESTS OF BOARD MEMBERS

PURPOSE OF THE REGISTER

The purpose of the Register of Interests of Members of the British Library Board is to list direct or indirect pecuniary interests or other material benefits appropriate to the body’s activities that a Member receives which members of the public might reasonably think could lead to a conflict of interest arising in his or her participation in the decisions of the British Library Board, or action taken in his or her capacity as a Member of the British Library Board. In line with Cabinet Office guidance, Board members should also register the interests of close family members and persons living in the same household as the Board member. Close family members include personal partners, parents, children (adult and minor), brothers, sisters, and the personal partners of these.

Members are required to keep that overall purpose in mind when registering their interests. It is left to individual Members to give the required information; each Member is ultimately responsible for his or her own entry. Registration of interests is an additional safeguard against the inadvertent omission of Members’ declaration of any relevant interest at the time when they contribute to the discussions, considerations and decisions of the Board or when they communicate with other Members or with Library Management or staff.

THE CATEGORIES OF REGISTERABLE INTERESTS

British Library Board Members register their interests under six categories, which are represented by the following headings. The Acceptance of Gifts and Hospitality is covered elsewhere in the Code of Practice. When considering what interests to register, members should consider their own position under each of the categories and that of relevant family members and persons living in the same household as the member.

1. Remunerated Directorships, Partnerships and Trusteeships

Members are required to register remunerated directorships, partnerships or trusteeships which they may hold in public or private companies, partnerships or trusts with which the Library is currently contractually involved or where there is some reasonable likelihood of a future contractual involvement. This also applies to directorships which may themselves be unremunerated but where the companies in question are associated with or subsidiaries of a company in which the Member holds a remunerated directorship.

2. Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.

Members are required to register outside employment, professions and sources of remuneration not covered elsewhere. However, this would apply only to connections with public or private companies with which the Library is currently contractually involved or where there is some reasonable likelihood of a future contractual involvement.

3. Registerable shareholdings

Members are required to register the name of any public or private company or other body in which, to their knowledge, they have a beneficial interest in a shareholding having a nominal value greater than 1% of the issued share capital of the company or body. This requirement applies only to public or private companies with which the Library is currently contractually involved or where there is some reasonable likelihood of a future contractual involvement. The requirement does not apply to shareholdings controlled on a discretionary basis by investment managers and which are outside the Member’s day to day control.

4. Registerable interest in land or property

Members are required to register the details of any land or property in which the Member has a direct interest. This requirement applies only in circumstances where the Library is contractually involved or where there is some reasonable likelihood of a future contractual involvement in relation to that land or property.

5. Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests

This is for use by Members wishing to register interests, including unremunerated interests, which do not clearly fall within any of the specific categories above but which they consider to be relevant to the definition of the Register’s purpose.

6. Other interests

Members register their other interests under this section.

Members are not required to disclose the amount of any remuneration or benefit they receive in respect of their registerable interests.

ADMINISTRATIVE ARRANGEMENTS AND INSPECTION

The Secretary writes to all Board Members to ask them to submit an up-to-date list of all their interests. He maintains and updates the Register during the year. It is the responsibility of Members to notify changes in their registerable interests to the Secretary of the Board whenever they arise. The Register is reviewed at least annually by the Secretary, who writes to Board Members asking them to confirm its accuracy or notify the Secretary of any other changes. The Board Audit Committee formally considers the resulting Register of Interests on a regular basis.


Baroness Blackstone (CHAIRMAN)

1.  Remunerated Directorships etc

Chair, Great Ormond Street Hospital Foundation Trust

Chairman, British Library Board

Chair, Orbit Housing Group

2.  Remunerated employment

None

3. Registerable shareholdings

None

4. Registerable interest in land or property

None

5. Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests

Chair, Franco-British Council

6. Other Interests

Member, House of Lords

(20/03/17)


David Barclay (DEPUTY CHAIRMAN)

1. Remunerated directorships, partnerships and trusteeships

Member, British Library Board

Senior Independent Director, Wates Group Limited

Non-Executive Director, Wessex Water Limited, Wessex Water Services Limited
and YTL Land & Property (UK) Limited

2. Remunerated employment

None

3. Registerable shareholdings

None

4. Registerable interest in land or property

None

5. Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests

None

6. Other Interests

None

(20/03/17)


Dr Robert Black CBE

1. Remunerated directorships, partnerships and trusteeships

Non-Executive Member, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland

Member, British Library Board

2. Remunerated employment

None

3. Registerable shareholdings

None

4. Registerable interest in land or property

None

5. Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests

Chair, Audit Committee of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Honorary Vice President, Shelter (Scotland)

6. Other Interests

Member of Court, University of Edinburgh

Chair of the Board of Fiscal Affairs Scotland (Charity)

(20/03/17)


Jonathan Callaway

1.  Remunerated directorships, partnerships and trusteeships

Member, British Library Board

2.  Remunerated employment

Part time author and writer of journal articles

3.  Registerable shareholdings

None

4.  Registerable interest in land or property

None

5.  Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests

Director and Trustee, Battersea Arts Centre

Deputy Chairman, Putney Society (registered charity)

Director, International Bank Note Society

6.  Other Interests

None

(20/03/17)


Tracy Chevalier

1.  Remunerated directorships, partnerships and trusteeships

Member, British Library Board

2.  Remunerated employment

Author

3.  Registerable shareholdings

None

4.  Registerable interest in land or property

None

5.  Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests

President, Royal Literary Fund

Board Member, Danenberg Oberlin in London Program

Member of Advisory Council, Society of Authors

Ambassador, Woodland Trust

Patron, John Soane Museum

Patron, Lyme Regis Museum

Patron, Dorchester Literary Festival

Husband is Trustee of The Internet Watch Foundation

Husband is Member of the UK Government Taskforce: “Growing Up Digital”

Social friendship with director of Stanhope PLC

6.  Other Interests

None

(20/03/17)


Martin Dickson

1.  Remunerated directorships, partnerships and trusteeships

Member, British Library Board

2.  Remunerated employment

None

3.  Registerable shareholdings

None

4.  Registerable interest in land or property

None

5.  Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests

None

6.  Other Interests

None

(20/03/17)

Lord (Robin) Janvrin

1.  Remunerated directorships, partnerships and trusteeships

Member, British Library Board (from 1 January 2017)

2.  Remunerated employment

Senior Advisor, HSBC Private Bank (UK)

3.  Registerable shareholdings

None

4.  Registerable interest in land or property

None

5.  Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests

Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Turkey

Chairman of the Entente Cordiale Scholarship Scheme

Trustee of the Normandy Memorial Trust

6.  Other Interests

Independent crossbench member of the House of Lords

Visiting Fellow, Oxford Centre for Corporate Reputation

Honorary Fellow, Brasenose College, Oxford

(20/03/17)

Roly Keating

1. Remunerated directorships, partnerships and trusteeships

None

2. Remunerated employment

Chief Executive, British Library Board

3. Registerable shareholdings

None

4. Registerable interest in land or property

None

5. Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests

Non-Executive Director, Channel 4

Chairman, Knowledge Quarter London Ltd

Trustee, Turner Contemporary, Margate

Trustee, The British Library Trust

Trustee, The Gilson Trust

Trustee, The Busby Trust

Trustee, American Trust for the British Library

Trustee, Friends of the National Libraries

6. Other Interests

None

(20/03/17)
Stephen Page

1. Remunerated directorships, partnerships and trusteeships

Member, British Library Board

Non-Executive Director, National Crime Agency [until 31 March 2017]

Non-Executive Director, BSI Group (The British Standards Institution)

2. Remunerated employment

Senior advisor to PwC providing advice on growth strategy for a new business area

3. Registerable shareholdings

None

4. Registerable interest in land or property

None

5. Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests

Association Member, BUPA

6. Other Interests

None

(20/03/17)


Patrick Plant

1.  Remunerated directorships, partnerships and trusteeships

Member, British Library Board

2.  Remunerated employment

None

3.  Registerable shareholdings

None

4.  Registerable interest in land or property

None

5.  Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests

Honorary Lecturer in Law, Faculty of Humanities at University of Manchester

Trustee, The Royal London Society for Blind People

Council Member of the Royal College of Art

6.  Other Interests

None

(20/03/17)


Sir John Ritblat

1.  Remunerated directorships, partnerships and trusteeships

Member, British Library Board

2.  Remunerated employment

Delancey Real Estate Asset Management Limited

3.  Registerable shareholdings

None

4.  Registerable interest in land or property

None

5.  Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests
Member of Delancey Real Estate Asset Management Ltd’s investment committee.

Chairman, Alpha Plus Group Ltd

Honorary President, The British Land Company PLC

President, British Ski and Snowboard

Chairman, The Wallace Collection Foundation

Vice President, Royal Institution

Member, Tate International Council

6.  Other Interests

Son, Sir James Ritblat, is Chairman and CEO of Delancey Real Estate Asset Management Ltd

(20/03/17)


Simon Thurley

1.  Remunerated directorships, partnerships and trusteeships

Member, British Library Board

Partner in Kingstaithe

Director and shareholder, Architrave Historical Services

2.  Remunerated employment

Consultancy business conducted as part of Kingstaithe Partnership and Architrave

Historical Services

Chief Executive and Chief Curator of Treasure Houses of England Asia Ltd

Visiting Professor of the Built Environment at Gresham College

Author with contracts signed through agent David Higham Associates

3.  Registerable shareholdings

None

4.  Registerable interest in land or property

None

5.  Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests

Trustee, Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation

Trustee and committee member of the Society for Court Studies

Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research London

Parochial Church Council member for All Saints South Lynn

6.  Other Interests

None

(20/03/16)


Professor Dame Helen Wallace

1.  Remunerated directorships, partnerships and trusteeships

Member, British Library Board

2.  Remunerated employment

Occasional modest part-time fees for lecturing and royalties for publications

3.  Registerable shareholdings

None

4.  Registerable interest in land or property

None

5.  Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests

Chair of Trustees, Bruges-Natolin UK European Scholarships Fund

Board member, Policy Network

Trustee, Higher Education Policy Institute

Member, Beckfoot Trust [runs a group of schools in and around Bradford]

6.  Other Interests

None

(20/03/17)

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