House of Lords - Constitutional Reform Bill

Select Committee on Constitutional Reform Bill First Report

APPENDIX 2: Constitutional Reform Bill [HL] Select Committee

The members of the Committee which conducted this inquiry were:

Viscount Bledisloe

Lord Carlisle of Bucklow

Lord Carter

Lord Craig of Radley

Lord Crickhowell

Lord Elder

Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Lord Chancellor)

Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen

Lord Goodhart

Lord Holme of Cheltenham

Lord Howe of Aberavon

Lord Kingsland

Lord Lloyd of Berwick

Lord Maclennan of Rogart

Lord Richard (Chairman)

Lord Windlesham

Declarations of Interests:

Viscount Bledisloe

*12(e) Remunerated directorships

Trustee, Equitas Holdings Ltd

*12(f) Regular remunerated employment

Practice as Barrister

*12(g) Controlling shareholdings

Shareholding in Peter Cheyney Ltd (a private company) (with family)

*13(a) Significant shareholdings

Shareholding in Peter Cheyney Ltd (a private company)

*13(b) Landholdings

Together with family trusts, ownership and management of a landed estate in West Gloucestershire, engaged in farming, forestry, property etc

Lord Carlisle of Bucklow

15(d) Office-holder in voluntary organisations

Chairman, Drugwatch Trust
Chairman, Friends of St. Wilfrid's Church, Mobberley, Cheshire
Trustee, Campaign for Children with Leukaemia

Lord Carter

*12(e) Remunerated directorships

Chairman, British Chicken Marketing Group
Vice-Chairman, English Farming and Food Partnerships
Vice-Chairman, British Association of Biofuels and Oils (BABFO) (unpaid)

*13(a) Significant shareholdings

32% of the shares in a private farming company which is in the process of being wound up

*13(c) Financial interests of spouse or relative or friend

Wife is non-executive director of a private farming company which is in the process of being wound up

15(d) Office-holder in voluntary organisations

Vice President of the Farmers' Club
President, Forestry and Timber Association
President, Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers

16(a) Trusteeships

Trustee of the Andrew Carter Trust (a small family charity set up in memory of son which makes grants to disabled people)
The Shaw Trust (employment of disabled people)
Plunkett Foundation (cooperatives)
Village Retail Services Association

16(b) Voluntary organisations

Fellow, Royal Agricultural Societies
Hon. Member, Guild of Agricultural Journalists

Lord Craig of Radley

15(d) Office-holder in voluntary organisations

Fellow, Commonwealth Partnership for Technology Management Ltd
President (RAF), The "Not Forgotten" Association
Vice Chairman of Council, RAF Benevolent Fund
Vice President, Forces Pension Society
President, Royal Air Force Club

16(b) Voluntary organisations

Life Member, RAFA

Lord Crickhowell

*12(a) Parliamentary consultancy agreements

Consultant, Associated British Ports Holdings plc (£15,000 per annum)

*12(e) Remunerated directorships

Chairman, ITNET plc

Lord Elder

*12(d) Non-parliamentary consultant

Consultant, The Smith Institute
Consultant, Forth Ports Plc
Adviser to Daval International Ltd
Consultant, First Group PLC

15(d) Office-holder in voluntary organisations

Chancellor, Al-Maktoum Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies
Member of the Action Committee for the Scottish National Photography Centre

Lord Falconer of Thoroton

*12(f) Regular remunerated employment

In receipt of Ministerial salary

*13(b) Landholdings

Homes in London and Nottinghamshire; joint ownership (with wife) of two flats in London occupied by an employee and a member of wife's family (from whom rent is received); also, co-ownership of a house formerly inhabited by father now rented out

*13(c) Financial interests of spouse or relative or friend

Wife is a Queen's Counsel practising from 4 Brick Court, Temple, London. She also owns a small cottage (rented) in Flintham, Nottinghamshire

Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen

15(c) Office-holder in pressure groups or trade unions

Member, AMICUS (former National Official of AMICUS)
Trustee, RoSPA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents)

15(d) Office-holder in voluntary organisations

Chair, Andrea Adams Trust
Vice President, Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents
President, British Diversity Awards

Lord Goodhart

15(c) Office-holder in pressure groups or trade unions

Vice President, International Commission of Jurists
Trustee, Fair Trials Abroad
Vice Chair of Council, JUSTICE

15(d) Office-holder in voluntary organisations

Trustee, Airey Neave Trust

Lord Holme of Cheltenham

*12(d) Non-parliamentary consultant

Special Adviser to Chairman, Rio Tinto plc

*12(e) Remunerated directorships

Adviser, NTL
Chairman of the Advisory Board, ISG (Industrial Services Group - an environmental clean-up company in California)
Chairman of the Board, Globescan International, Toronto, Canada (23 March 2004)
Director, Africa International Financial Holdings Llc, Boston, USA (23 March 2004)
Member of the Advisory Board, Liberty Global Partners, Boston
Member of the Advisory Board, Montrose Associates
Member of the Advisory Board, Venture Exchange, Toronto, Canada (30 September 2003)

15(a) Membership of public bodies

Chairman of Governors, English College in Prague
Chancellor, University of Greenwich

15(d) Office-holder in voluntary organisations

Chairman, Advisory Board, British-American Project
Chairman, Centre for the Advancement of Sustainable Development Partnerships
Chairman, Hansard Society for Parliamentary Government
Chairman, Royal African Society (23 March 2004)
Vice-Chairman LEAD International (23 March 2004)
Council Member, Overseas Development Institute

Lord Howe of Aberavon

*12(d) Non-parliamentary consultant

Occasional consultancy work for Jones Day (a US law firm)

15(a) Membership of public bodies

Bencher of the Middle Temple
Chairman, Steering Committee of Inland Revenue's Tax Law Rewrite Project

15(b) Trusteeships of cultural bodies

Chairman and Trustee, Thomson Foundation
Trustee, Cambridge Commonwealth Trust
Trustee, Cambridge Overseas Trust
Trustee, Rajiv Gandhi (UK) Foundation

15(c) Office-holder in pressure groups or trade unions

Board Member, Britain in Europe
President, Consumers' Association

15(d) Office-holder in voluntary organisations

Council Member, French Aspen Institute
Member, International Advisory Council, Stanford University (California, USA) Institute for International Studies
President, Great Britain China Centre
President, Russian Enterprise Trust
President, Academy of Experts
President, National Centre for Young People with Epilepsy

Lord Kingsland

*12(f) Regular remunerated employment

Barrister, 2 Harcourt Buildings, EC4Y 9DB

15(d) Office-holder in voluntary organisations

Chairman, Board of Trustees, Plymouth Marine Laboratory clg (unpaid)

Lord Lloyd of Berwick

*13(b) Landholdings

Woodland near Chichester and in Central Wales
Rental income from a house at Strand-on-the-Green, London W4 (27 October 2003)

15(a) Membership of public bodies

Retired Lord of Appeal in Ordinary

15(d) Office-holder in voluntary organisations

President of Outlook Foundation (which provides residential accommodation for those between 18 and 25 with severe learning difficulties)
President, East Sussex Rifle Association
Trustee, Brighton West Pier Trust
Vice President, Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy
President, Sussex Downsmen
President, Sussex Heritage Trust

Lord Maclennan of Rogart

*13(b) Landholdings

Crofthouse in Sutherland

15(b) Trusteeships of cultural bodies

Director, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Director, National Youth Orchestra of Scotland
Director, Northlands Creative Glass, Lybster, Caithness

Lord Richard

*12(f) Regular remunerated employment

Occasional income as a QC

*13(a) Significant shareholdings

World Trade Centre Holdings (150 shares)

15(d) Office-holder in voluntary organisations

Chairman, Lease (leasehold advisory service)