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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
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