Corporate report

List of ESFA board members' interests

Published 30 November 2021

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) Management Board during the financial year 2020-21. ESFA’s Management Board includes its executive and non-executive members.

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 influence

• Parent Governor at Merton Park Primary School

Warwick Sharp

Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests

• Board member at London Southeast education Group

Kate Josephs

Public sector/charity positions of influence

• Parent Governor at Holbeach Primary School • Fellow at the centre for Public Impact

No interests declared

Eileen Milner

Stuart Proud

Peter Mucklow

Matthew Atkinson

Sarah Whitehead

Mike Pettifer

Charlotte Briscall

Keith Smith

John Edwards

Kirsty Evans

Non-executive members

Dame Irene Lucas-Hays DBE (Chair)

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 – Hays Travel Charitable Foundation

Hunada Nouss OBE

Remunerated private sector 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
Public sector/charity positions of influence	• Non-executive audit and risk committee member – Department for Education
Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests	• Governance Committee member – ICAEW • Royal Society member of Audit and Risk Committee

Stuart McMinnies

Remunerated directorships	• Managing Partner – Duke Street LLP • Director (via Duke Street) – Ardent Hire Solutions • 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.
Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests	• Non-executive director at Delfield Group Holdings Ltd.
Public sector/charity positions of influence	• Trustee – Change Grow Live

Martin Spencer

Remunerated directorships	• MJ & JM Spencer Ltd (Consultancy Services)
Disclosure of family members interests	• Spouse is Business Manager – Talavera Infant School. • Spouse is director at MJ & JM Spencer Ltd (Consultancy Services)
Public sector/charity positions of influence	• Non-executive director – NHS Counter Fraud • Non-executive director – Serious Fraud Office • Non-executive director – Companies House • Non-executive director and Chair of ARAC – Ofsted • Non-executive director – Criminal Cases Review Commission • Audit Committee member at London Fire Brigade