Declarations of interest
Nigel Stapleton is a non-executive director on the Board of the Reliance Group. A subsidiary of the Reliance Group provides outsourced manned security guarding services to some of Royal Mail's sites though the contract is not directly with Royal Mail. The contract has a value for £1m per annum and this represents less than 0.5% of the Reliance Group's turnover.
Nigel Stapleton does not hold shares in the Reliance Group and therefore has no financial interest in the contract. The Board of the Reliance Group has no involvement in the bidding or award of contracts of this size by individual subsidiaries.
Mr Stapleton is an independent director of an operating subsidiary of Samruk Kazyna National Prosperity Fund, which manages the State owned assets of Kazakhstan. The Kazak postal services provider - KazPost - has no operations within the EU and apart from the handling of cross border mail on tariffs that are agreed at the international level (which Postcomm has no regulatory responsibility for or involvement with) it has no business relationships with any UK licenced mail operator.
Tim Brown was employed by Royal Mail from 1994 to 2005 and has deferred benefits in the Royal Mail pension scheme. These deferred benefits are being transferred to the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme
Tim's son Adam is employed by TNT Express. TNT Express is a separate business from the licenced postal operator TNT Post UK Ltd. TNT Express is not licenced or regulated by Postcomm.
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Wanda Goldwag is an adviser to Smedvig Capital Limited ("Smedvig Capital"), a London-based private equity firm. Smedvig Capital invests predominantly in UK companies and has built a diversified portfolio of early stage and expansion capital investments, none of which is currently in the postal sector. However, Smedvig Capital is regulated by the Financial Services Authority and has a compliance officer who has been asked to draw Postcomm's attention to any developing relationship between Smedvig Capital and a company in the postal sector.
Ms Goldwag is also a director of three companies working in the human resources area:
- Challenge Consultancy Ltd, which provides face-to-face training and consultancy on diversity issues;
- You at Work Holdings Ltd, which provides flexible benefits and lifestyle rewards; and
- True North Human Capital Limited, a management consultancy serving the HR community in the arenas of talent management and executive search.
None of these companies currently has any clients involved in the postal sector. Ms Goldwag has asked Challenge Consultancy, You at Work and True North to alert her to any developing relationship between themselves and any company in the postal sector so that any potential conflicts of interest can be resolved.
Ms Goldwag is a director of Goldwag Consultancy Ltd which specialises in loyalty schemes, partnership management and consultancy. Goldwag Consultancy Ltd does not and will not have any clients in the postal sector.
In addition, Ms Goldwag is a non-executive director of the Performing Right Society Ltd. and of its operating company MCPS-PRS Alliance Limited. PRS works for its members - composers, lyricists and music publishers - to license the public performance and broadcast of copyright works, collect licence fees, assemble information about the use of that music, and then distribute royalties. The MCPS-PRS Alliance is a joint venture company with the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society Limited which licenses the reproduction of musical works.
Ms Goldwag is also a director of International Copyright Enterprise Services AB a Swedish company which is a joint venture between MCPS-PRS Alliance Limited and its Swedish equivalent Svenska Tonsättares Internationella Musikbyrå upa. which provides administrative services to both companies.
Stephen Littlechild, commissioner
Professor Stephen Littlechild is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Birmingham and Fellow at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He is also an international consultant on regulation, competition and privatisation. S ince 2006 Professor Littlechild has advised or provided services for the following clients :
Commission for Communications Regulation (Comreg) Ireland, Guernsey Electricity Ltd, Office of Health Economics, AES (Chile), Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), Beauchamps Solicitors (for Health Insurance Authority, Ireland), Hunton & Williams (testimony for US electricity companies), Vector Ltd (NZ), Vodafone, Firecone Ventures (Australia) (advice on transmission regulation), Mercados Energy Markets International, Ofgem, Andrews Kurth (testimony in re Mirant case), Ince & Co (testimony on international arbitration), Anglian Water, APX Group (gas and power exchange operator), Baker & McKenzie (testimony in re H3G telecommunications case), E.On, Monitor (Independent regulator of NHS foundation trusts), Thames Water, Airtricity, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), CCWater, Netherlands Competition Authority, KPMG (advice for British Telecom), Cambridge Economic Policy Associates (CEPA), PWC (advice for Monitor), Ofwat, Jersey Electricity Company.
Lucy Scott-Moncrieff, commissioner
Lucy Scott-Moncrieff is managing partner of Scott-Moncrieff Harbour and Sinclair, a solicitors' practice undertaking legally aided and privately paid work for individuals.
Ms Scott-Moncrieff is also a member of the QC appointment panel, which recommends suitable higher court advocates to be appointed QC by HMQ.
She is an associate with Verita, a consultancy that carries out investigations on behalf of public bodies.
In addition to this she is a consultant with Eversheds solicitors, providing advice on mental health law issues and a director of Edge Training, which offers training on mental health and disability law to health and social care organisations.
Ms Scott-Moncrieff is Deputy Vice President (elect) of The Law Society, which represents the interests of solicitors in England and Wales and a member of the editorial boards of the Community Care Law Reports and the Journal of Mental Health Law which is an unpaid role.
The Commission does not believe that the interests listed above threaten the effectiveness or impartiality of these members or of the Commission as a whole.
