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Development Boards (Membership)

Volume 960: debated on Thursday 14 December 1978

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asked the Secretary of State for Industry (1) if he will publish in theOfficial Reportthe membership of the Northern Industrial Development Board and their declared financial interests;

  • (2) if he will publish in theOfficial Reportthe membership of the North-Western Industrial Development Board and their declared financial interests;
  • (3) if he will publish in theOfficial Reportthe membership of the Yorkshire and Humberside Industrial Development Board and their declared financial interests;
  • (4) if he will publish in theOfficial Reportthe membership of the South-Western Industrial Development Board and their declared financial interests.
  • pursuant to his reply[Official Report, 12th December 1978],gave the following information:The present membership of these four boards, together with the other positions held by the members, is listed below.


    Members declare other financial interests in confidence and appropriate arrangements are made to avoid conflicts of interest.

    NORTHERN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD

    Chairman

    R. A. Cookson, C.B.E.—Non-executive director Lead Industries Group; Director, Lloyds Bank Ltd; Chairman, North Regional Board, Lloyds Bank Ltd.; Member, CBI, North Regional Council; Trustee, Civic Trust for the North East; Member of Court and of Council, University of Newcastle upon Tyne; Trustee of Newcastle University Development Trust.

    Members

    G. T. Arnold, J.P.—Divisional Organiser, Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers; Chairman, Tyneside Confederation of Trade Unions; Member of Northern Economic Planning Council; Chairman, Regional Council T.U.C.; Executive of North of England Development Council.

    P. Baines, F.C.I.S.—Former Commercial Director of Albright & Wilson Ltd. (Retired); General Commission Inland Revenue, White-haven; Member of Co.S.I.R.A., Cumbria.

    G. R. Chetwynd, C.B.E.—Board Member BSC Industry Ltd.; Chairman N. Regional Health Authority; Member of the Northern Economic Planning Council.

    P. H. Crowther, C.Eng., M.Inst.F, M.B.I.M., F.R.S.A.—Chairman of the Local Board, Vickers Ltd. Engineering Group; Member

    of the Council, North of England C.B.I.; Member of the Northern Region Executive Committee of the Engineering Employers Association.

    G. D. Dixon—District Delegate, Amalgamated Society of Boilermakers, Shipwrights, Blacksmiths and Structural Workers; District Secretary, Tees Area Confederation of Shipbuilding & Engineering Unions; Chairman N.E. Coast Iron & Steel Trades Allied Craftsmen's Committee.

    D. J. Grant—Chairman & Managing Director, Darchem Ltd.; Director William Baird & Co. Ltd. who hold shares in Expanded Metal Co. Ltd. and Dawson International Ltd; Director, Micropore International; Director, Microtherm Europa N.V. (subsidiary of Micropore International and Degussa of Frankfurt); Alternate Director of Butterfield & Harvey Ltd.; Member of Northern Economic Planning Council; Member of CBI Northern Council.

    J R. Mackay, O.B.E.—Former Director, Swan Hunter Group (Retired); previously a partner in Peat, Marwick Mitchell & Co., Accountants; non-executive Director, Fischer & Porter Ltd.; non-executive Chairman, Peterson Bros. (South Shields) Ltd.; subsidiary of Hunting Gibson Ltd., Ship Chandlers.

    Professor W. G. McClelland, M.A., M.B.A., F.B.I.M.,—Chairman & Managing Director, Laws Stores Ltd., Gateshead; Chairman, Washington Development Corporation; Chairman, Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust; Member of the Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society; Member of the Council of the Royal Economic Society; Governor of the National Institute of Economic & Social Research.

    L. R. Mann—Managing Director of Victor Products (Wallsend) Ltd.; Member of the Northern Regional Board of the N.E.B.

    G. Russell—Managing Director, Alcan (U.K.) Ltd.; Director, Alcan Aluminium (U.K.) Ltd.; Chairman, Luxfer Holdings Ltd.; Director Alcan Farms Ltd.; Director, Alcan Properties Ltd.; Member of Institute of Directors and Directors Forum; Member of Board of Management Northern Symphonia.

    Dr. A. W. C. Taylor, B.Sc., F.R.I.C.—Former Chairman Petrochemical Division, I.C.I. Ltd. (Retired); Chairman, Board of Governors of Teesside Polytechnic; Chairman, Tees & Hartlepool Port Authority; Director, The Grove Marton Estate Ltd. (Private Co.); Deputy Chairman, British Ports Association.

    A. G. Thompson, B.Sc., M. Inst. P.—Managing Director, Henry Cooke Ltd.; Director, J. Bibby & Sons Ltd.; Director, Iscal Ltd.; Trustee of Brathay Hall, Ambleside; Trustee of Heron Cornmill, Milnthorpe.