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Ofgem

Volume 400: debated on Monday 24 February 2003

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To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will list the members of the Board of Ofgem and the companies they have worked for. [86189]

The Gas and Electricity Markets Authority comprises the following members. Biographical details areas are drawn from Ofgem publications.Callum McCarthy, Chairman of the Authority and Chief Executive of Ofgem. Former senior civil servant at the Department of Trade and Industry; subsequently Director of Corporate Finance at Kleinwort Benson; Managing Director and Deputy Head of Corporate Finance at BZW; Chief Executive Officer of Barclays Bank group operations in Japan before moving to head the Bank's businesses in North America.Gill Whittington, Chief Operating Officer. Former Chief Executive of the media divisions of Booker plc and subsequently of Booker Services; then Director of Strategy at Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Trust.

John Neilson, Managing Director, Customers and Supply. Senior civil servant. Dr. Eileen Marshall CBE, Managing Director, Competition and Trading Arrangements. A former stockbroker and university lecturer, Dr. Marshall has held position in the office of Electricity Regulation and the Office of Gas Supply.

Richard Ramsay, Managing Director, Regulation and Financial Affairs. Formerly with Hill Samuel; BZW; and Ivory and Sime.

Sir Keith Stuart (non-executive). Formerly Director, then Chairman, of Seeboard.

Richard Farrant (non-executive). Non-executive Chairman of the Banking Code Standard Board. Formerly Chief Executive of the Securities and Futures Authority, then Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director of the Financial Services Authority.

Professor Leonard Waverman (non-executive). Professor of Economics at London Business School. Former part-time member of the Ontario Energy Board.

James Starchan (non-executive). Chief Executive of the Royal National Institute for Deaf People. Formerly a Managing Director of Merrill Lynch.

Margaret Ford (non-executive). Chief executive officer of Good Practice Limited. Chairman of English Partnerships.

John Belcher (non-executive). Chief Executive of Anchor Trust.

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will set out the term and salary of each member of the Ofgem Board. [86194]

The Chair was appointed for a period of five years (including his previous terms as Director General of Gas Supply and Director General of Electricity Supply) to 31 October 2003. Other executive members are appointed on an ex-officio basis for renewable periods of two years. The latest annual report of the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (2001–02) shows the salaries of executive members as follows:

£000
Executive memberSalary
Callum McCarthy160–165
Dr. Eileen Marshall120–125
John Neilson95–100
Richard Ramsay140–145
Gill Whittington110–115
During the same period, non-executive members each received remuneration of £12,000 per annum, and are appointed for periods ranging from one to three years to facilitate continuity.

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the recruitment consultants used in the appointment of the Director General of Ofgem cost; and if she will make a statement. [86202]

Fees and expenses of £45,373.80 were paid to the recruitment consultants in 1998.

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry pursuant to her answer of 27 January, ref.86201, if she will name (a) the firm of recruitment consultants retained by the Department under a call-off contract which assisted with the process of appointment of the combined post of Director General of Gas Supply and Director General of Electricity Supply and Chairman-designate of the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority and (b) the other appointments with which the firm assists. [94537]

Price WaterhouseCoopers assisted the Department in this recruitment under the call-off contract. In 1998 no central records are held on other appointments on which the firm may have assisted.