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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