Government intervention

In line with the Localism Act 2011 – GOV.UK, each commissioner has declared any interests which may affect their role.

For more details:

Email: commissioners@woking.gov.uk 

Questions to the commissioners

These are the questions that were asked of the commissioners.

1. Employment

Any employment, office, trade, profession or vocation carried on for profit or gain and any unpaid directorships.

2. Sponsorship

Any payment or provision of any other financial benefit (other than from the council) made or provided within the last twelve months in respect of any expenses incurred in carrying out duties as a commissioner.

3. Contracts

Any contract which is made between the commissioner or the commissioner’s spouse/ partner (or a body in which that person has a beneficial interest) and the council (a) under which goods or services are to be provided or works are to be executed; and (b) which has not been fully discharged.

4. Land

Any beneficial interest in land (e.g. a home) which is within the council's area.

5. Licences

Any licence (alone or jointly with others) to occupy land in the council's area for a month or longer.

6. Corporate tenancies

Any tenancy where (to the Commissioner’s knowledge): (a) the landlord is the council; and (b) the tenant is a body in which the commissioner, or the commissioner’s spouse/partner, has a beneficial interest.

7. Securities

Any beneficial interests in securities (i.e. shares, debentures, debenture stock, loan stock, units of a collective investment scheme and other securities of any description, other than money deposited with a building society) where that body (to the commissioner’s knowledge) has a place of business or land in the council's area and either:

• the total nominal value of securities exceeds £25,000 or one hundredth of the total share capital of that body, or
• if the share capital of that body is of more than one class, the total nominal value of the shares of any one class in which the relevant person has a beneficial interest exceeds one hundredth of the total issued share capital of that class

8. Other interests 

Non-pecuniary interests that arise from the commissioner’s membership of, or occupation of a position of general control or management, in the following bodies:

• bodies to which the commissioner has been appointed or nominated by the council
• bodies exercising functions of a public nature
• bodies directed to charitable purposes
• bodies one of which of whose principal purposes includes the influence of public opinion or policy

Declarations made by Sir Tony Redmond

Declared interests: 

• Chair, Improvement and Assurance Board, Nottingham City Council

No potential conflicts of interests.

Declarations made by Richard Carr

Declared interests: 

• Interim Managing Director, East Midlands Development Company
• Interim Managing Director, Colchester Commercial Holdings Ltd (NB. role concludes at end March 2024)
• Director and co-owner, Richard Carr Consulting Ltd
• Senior Independent Director, East London NHS Foundation Trust
• Chair, Independent Improvement Board for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority

No potential conflicts of interests.

Declarations made by Mervyn Greer

Declared interests: 

• UK Government Cabinet Office Crown Representative for Local Government

No potential conflicts of interests.

Declarations made by Barry Scarr

Declared interests: 

• Director, Impact Change Solutions Ltd

No potential conflicts of interests.