Register of ESFA board members’ interests for the financial year 2021 to 2022
Published 7 November 2022
Applies to England
Introduction
The Corporate governance in central government departments: code of good practice states that all relevant interests of individual board members should be published. This document sets out the declarations of interests for the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s (ESFA) executive and non-executive members during the financial year 2021-22.
Entries reflect member’s current positions and are based on a member’s discretionary judgment of what might form a potential conflict of interest, based on guidance from the following extract of the Code of conduct for board members of public bodies (Cabinet Office, June 2019):
4. Conflicts of interest
4.1 When accepting an appointment to the public body you should consider if any conflicts of interest arise from your private interests or by virtue of any other roles you hold. You should consider, with advice from the appointing department how these should best be managed, and agree these with the organisation.
4.2 You must ensure that no conflict arises, or could reasonably be perceived to arise, between your public duties and your private interests, financial or otherwise.
4.3 You must comply with the rules of the body on handling conflicts of interests. As a minimum, these will require you to declare publicly, usually in the body’s register of interests, any private financial or non-financial interests of your own, or of close family members, which may, or may be perceived to, conflict with your public duties. The rules will also require you to remove yourself from the discussion or determination of matters in which you have a financial interest. In matters in which you have a non-financial interest, you should not participate in the discussion or determination of a matter where the interest might suggest a danger of bias.
4.4 It is your responsibility to ensure that you are familiar with the body’s rules on handling conflicts of interests, that you comply with these rules and that your entry in the body’s public register of members’ interests is accurate and up-to-date.
Where a board member has left the department, their interests have been reported as at their most recent declaration.
The list covers:
- remunerated directorships
- other remunerated employment, office, profession and other activity
- public sector/charity positions of influence
- significant shareholdings/interests in public or private companies
- miscellaneous and unremunerated interests
- disclosure of family members’ interests
Executive members
Susan Lovelock
Public sector/charity positions of interest:
- Parent Governor at Merton Park Primary School
Warwick Sharp
Miscellaneous and unenumerated interests:
- Board member at London Southeast education Group
Sarah Whitehead
Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests:
- Member of Finance and Resources Committee, University of Roehampton
Kirsty Evans
Public sector/charity positions of influence:
- Trustee of YES Manchester
Owen Jenkins
Public sector/charity positions of influence
- Trustee of Yare Academy Trust
- Chair of Governors at Dussingdale Primary School
No interests declared
Eileen Milner (until 15 July 2021)
Stuart Proud (until 30 September 2021)
Peter Mucklow
Matthew Atkinson
Charlotte Briscall (until 31 January 2022)
John Edwards
Non-executive members
Irene Lucas CBE
Remunerated directorships:
- Chair – Hays Travel Limited
Significant shareholdings/interests in public or private companies:
- Owner – Hays Travel Limited
Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests:
- Deputy Lieutenant of Tyne and Wear
Public sector/charity positions of influence:
- Non-executive board member - Department for Education
- Chair – ESFA Management Board
- Chair – Hays Travel Charitable Foundation
Martin Spencer
Public sector/charity positions of influence:
- Civil Service Commissioner
- Interim chair and non-executive director - ESFA
- Non-executive director – NHS Counter Fraud Authority
- Non-executive director – Serious Fraud Office
- Non-executive director – Companies House
- Non-executive director and Chair of ARAC – Ofsted
- Non-executive and Chair of ARAC – Achieving for Children
Hunada Nouss OBE
Remunerated directorships:
- MOSL Non-executive board member
Other remunerated employment, office, profession and other activity:
- Non-executive board member – Met Office
- Parliamentary Works & Sponsor Body member of Audit and Risk Committee
- Non-executive board member - ESFA
Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests:
- Governance Committee member – ICAEW
- Royal Society member of Audit and Risk Committee
- Honorary Rector – City University of London
Stuart McMinnies
Remunerated directorships:
- Managing Partner – Duke Street LLP
- Director (via Duke Street) – Ardent Hire Solutions Ltd
- Director (Via Duke Street) – Voyage Care Ltd
Significant shareholdings/interests in public or private companies:
- Vistry plc.
- 3i Group plc.
- Unilever plc.
- Eque2 Ltd.
- Royal Dutch Shell plc.
- Delfield Group Holdings Ltd.
Public sector/charity positions of influence:
- Trustee – Change Grow Live
John Lakin
Public sector/charity positions of influence:
- Member – School Teachers Review Body
- Trustee – St John’s Foundation
Peter Kane
Public sector/charity positions of influence:
- Non-executive director – St Georges Foundation Trust
- Non-executive director – Epsom & St Helier NHS Trust
- Non-executive director – Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) Board
- Non-executive director – Historic England Audit Committee
Ian Hickman
Remunerate directorships:
- Hickman Consulting Limited – public sector improvement.
Public sector/charity positions of influence:
- Highlands School Enfield - Governor
No interests declared
Nigel Johnson