Corporate report
List of board members’ interests: March 2023
Published 18 July 2023
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This list covers executive and non-executive members of the Department for Education’s Board as of March 2023. The Cabinet Office publishes ministers’ interests.
Entries reflect members’ current positions and are based on a member’s discretionary judgement of what might form a potential conflict of interest, based on the guidance from the code of conduct for board members of public bodies.
The list covers:
- remunerated directorships
- other remunerated employment, office, profession, and other activity
- significant shareholdings/interests in public or private companies
- miscellaneous and unremunerated interests
- disclosure of family members’ interests
Executive members
Susan Acland-Hood
Remunerated private sector directorships
- none declared
Other remunerated employment, office, profession and other activity
- none declared
Significant shareholdings/Interests in listed or private companies
- landowner in Somerset
- share ownership in diverse portfolio, managed remotely with standing instruction to avoid investing in areas that could give rise to conflict or perceived conflict
Public sector/charity positions of influence
- Fairfield Charitable Trust (trustee)
Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests
- member of Cambridge Centre for Business Research Advisory Board
Disclosure of family members’ interests
- brother works in the Department for Education
Indra Morris
No interests declared
Jane Cunliffe
No interests declared
Tony Foot
No interests declared
Non-executive members
Richard Pennycook
Remunerated private sector directorships
- chair, Fenwick Ltd (former)
- Boparan Holdings Limited
- On the Beach Group PLC
- Westmoreland Ltd
Other remunerated employment, office, profession and other activity
- none declared
Significant shareholdings/Interests in listed or private companies
- none declared
Public sector/charity positions of influence
- Retail Sector Council, co-chair
Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests
- member of the Co-op
Disclosure of family members’ interests
- none declared
Stuart McMinnies
Remunerated private sector directorships
- Duke Street LLP (partner)
- Ardent Hire Solutions Ltd (non-executive director)
Other remunerated employment, office, profession and other activity
- chair of Department for Education Audit and Risk Committee
Significant shareholdings/Interests in listed or private companies
- APEM Ltd (investor)
- Delfield Precision Engineering Ltd (investor and non-executive director)
- Unilever PLC. (investor)
- Royal Dutch Shell PLC (investor)
- 3i Group PLC. (investor)
- Vistry PLC. (investor)
- Eque2 Ltd (investor)
- Herondale Investment Holdings (director)
- Channel 3 Consulting Ltd (investor)
- Smart Capital Technology Ltd (investor)
- Alpine ire Engineers Ltd (investor)
- Aptus Group Ltd (investor)
Public sector/charity positions of influence
- none declared
Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests
- none declared
Disclosure of family members’ interests
- none declared
Jack Boyer
Remunerated private sector directorships
- Ricardo PLC (non-executive director)
- TT Electronics PLC (senior independent director)
- Bela Holdings AG (non-executive director)
Other remunerated employment, office, profession etc
- Sir Henry Royce Institute
Significant shareholdings/Interests in listed or private companies
- none declared
Public sector/charity positions of influence
- University of Bristol (chair of trustees)
Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests
- none declared
Disclosure of family members’ interests
- spouse is chair of trustees of SafeLives
Toby Peyton-Jones
Remunerated private sector directorships
- none declared
Other remunerated employment, office, profession and other activity
- industry ambassador, Siemens plc, Skills and Future of Work
- industry advisor, EU Skills
- conference speaker
- consultant advisor, Springpod
Significant shareholdings/Interests in listed or private companies
- Siemens shares
Public sector/charity positions of influence
- trustee, The Edge Foundation
- fellow, Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD)
- honorary fellow, IES
- companion, Chartered Management Institute (CMI)
- Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (non-executive director)
Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests
- none declared
Disclosure of family members’ interests
- brother Simon Peyton-Jones: (Microsoft) is chair of CAS, and chair of the National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE)
Sir Peter Bazalgette
Remunerated private sector directorships
- Saga PLC (non-executive director)
- LoveCrafts (non-executive director)
- Acamar Films (non-executive director)
Other remunerated employment, office, profession and other activity
- CMi Mentoring
Significant shareholdings/interests in listed or private companies
- none declared
Public sector/charity positions of influence
- Royal College of Art (chair of council)
- Creative Industries Council (co-chair)
- Creative UK Board (non-executive director)
- Business Council Chair, Care Leavers Covenant
- Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction (chair)
- DCMS Media and Arts Honours Committee
Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests
- none declared
Disclosure of family members’ interests
- spouse is a non-executive director at Catapult Cell and Gene Therapy
- spouse is a non-executive director at Intellectual Property Office
- spouse is the chair of the British Science Association
- spouse is a non-executive director at English National Opera
Suzy Levy (non-executive board member until April 2023)
Remunerated private sector directorships, office, profession and other activity
- The Red Plate Ltd
Other remunerated employment
- member of the Race Advisory Board (Home Office, until April 2023)
Significant shareholdings/interests in listed or private companies
- The Red Plate Ltd
Public sector/charity positions of influence
- The Women’s Sport Trust
- Foundervine (Advisory Board)
- The Common Sense (Advisory Board)
- Race Advisory Board (Home Office, until April 2023)
Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests
- none declared
Disclosure of family members’ interests
- spouse has shareholdings in The Red Plate Ltd
- spouse has significant Shareholdings in Circulating First
- spouse has shareholdings in Cistor
- spouse has shareholdings in Tomax Technology