Guidance

Appointments made: April 2024 to March 2025

Updated 23 April 2024

Applies to England

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April 2024

Extension of four Student Loans Company Independent Assessors

The appointments of Michaela Jones, Naseem Malik, Peter Wrench and Jonathan Willis as Independent Assessors for the Student Loans Company (SLC) have been extended for a further 12 months from 1 May 2024.

A remuneration rate of £500 per day pro rata will apply for casework undertaken.

Jonathan Willis has declared the following conflict of interest:

  • guest lecturer at Northumbria University

Michaela Jones, Naseem Malik and Peter Wrench have not declared any conflict of interests.

None of the appointees have declared any political activity.

SLC is a non-departmental public body of the Department for Education. Independent Assessor appointments for the SLC are made by the Secretary of State for Education and ministers in the Welsh Government.

School Teachers’ Review Body: board member

Lauren Costello has been appointed to serve on the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB). She will serve from 1 March 2024 for a term of 3 years.

Remuneration is £300 a day for an estimated time commitment of 28 days a year.

Details of political and other interests are available on the OME Review body members: register of interests.

The STRB makes recommendations on the pay, professional duties and working time of school teachers in England. The STRB reports to the Secretary of State for Education and the Prime Minister. It is an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Education.

LocatED: board members

Phil Ellis and Julian Rudd-Jones have had their appointments as board members of LocatED extended for 12 months from 1 April 2024. Caroline Tolhurst has been reappointed as a board member from 1 April 2024 for a period of 3 years.

Remuneration is £750 per day for a time commitment of 25 days per year.

Caroline Tolhurst has declared the following interests:

  • Director of 307 NKR Freehold Ltd
  • Non- Executive Director of Wynnstay Properties Public Limited Company
  • Director of Mont Fort Limited

Phil Ellis has declared the following interests:

  • Director of of Civitas Investment Management Ltd
  • shareholder of Aviva, Legal & General, Civitas Investment Management Ltd.

Julian Rudd-Jones has declared the following interests. He is Director of:

  • Kajima Estates (Europe) Ltd
  • Kajima Properties
  • Kajima Partnerships Limited
  • Ironwood Estates Limited
  • SKSP Limited
  • Kajima Student Housing Limited
  • GENR8 Kajima Regeneration Limited
  • Taiyo Power & Storage Limited
  • TPS PSC Limited
  • TPS Ford Oaks Limited

None of the appointees have declared any political activity.

LocatED is an arms-length body to the Department for Education (DfE). It is responsible for acquiring and managing sites in England to help deliver new school places for thousands of children. The appointments are made by the Secretary of State for Education.

Construction Industry Training Board (CITB): board members

Rachael Cunningham, Nikki Davis, Stephen Gray, Julia Heap and Herman Kok have been appointed to serve on the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB). They will serve from 1 April 2024 for a period of 4 years.

The roles are unremunerated and the time commitment is 16 hours a month.

Rachael Cunningham has declared the following interest:

  • preconstruction lead for a Laing O’Rourke contract with the Defence Infrastructure Organisation, part of the Ministry of Defence

Julia Heap has declared the following interest:

  • Principal & Chief Executive of Hopwood Hall College & University Centre

Herman Kok has declared the following interests:

  • Company Secretary of Lindum Group ltd, as a levy payer, Lindum is from time to time in receipts of CITB grant funding for training purposes
  • unpaid Chair of Lincoln Group Training Association, a CITB funded independent training group servicing the northern part of Lincolnshire
  • Chair Elect of the National Federation of Builders main contractors section

Nikki Davis and Stephen Gray have not declared any interests.

Herman Kok has declared that he is an active member of the Labour Party.

Rachael Cunningham, Nikki Davis, Stephen Gray and Julia Heap have not declared any political activity.

The CITB supports the construction industry to have a skilled, competent and inclusive workforce, now and in the future. It is an executive non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Education. Board member appointments are made by the Secretary of State for Education.

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