Stephanie Monk
Human Resources director, Granada Group plc., which appealed against an industrial tribunal to reinstate workers sacked for going on strike after their pay was cut from £140 to £100 a week.
Member of the Low Pay Commission on the minimum wage, and the New Deal Taskforce.
Sue Clifton
Executive director, Group 4, criticised for mishandling of child offenders after escapes, bullying, riots and attacks on staff.
Advisor to the government’s Youth Justice Board on how young offenders should be handled.
Keith McCullagh
Chief executive of British Biotech. This company has been repeatedly censured by the Stock Exchange, particularly when it was revealed that it’s leading drug product didn’t work.
Chairman of the government’s Finance Advisory Group to help high-tech companies gain financial investors’ confidence.
Sir Robin Biggam
Non-executive director, British Aerospace, which sells weapons to Turkey, some of which are used against the Kurdish separatists.
Chairman of the Independent Television Commission. This revoked the license of the Kurdish satellite station Med TV because of complaints from Turkey that it gave a platform to Kurdish separatists.
Neville Bain
Non-executive director, Safeway, one of the supermarkets which was swallowing branches of the Post Office.
Made chairman of the Post Office.
Robert Osborne
Head of Special Projects division of Tarmac Plc, one of the major constructors of PFI hospitals.
Chief Executive of the Department of Health’s Private Finance Unit. In 1998, returned to Tarmac to run PFI division.
David Steeds
Corporate Development Director of Serco Group Plc.
Chief executive of the government’s Private Finance Panel.
Tony Edwards
Director of the TI Group, which owned Matrix Churchill, the company which provided machine tools to manufacture arms to the Iraqis. He is the company’s chief executive, which is engaged in 150 military operations around the world.
Head of the government’s Defence Export Services Organisation, advising the government on granting licenses to companies wishing to sell arms to different countries around the world.
Neil Caldwell
Director of PTBRO, the distributor of the government’s landfill tax money, for which it receives 10 per cent of the amount handled in administration fees.
Director of Entrust, the regulatory body supervising the distribution of landfill tax money.
Judith Hanratty
Company Secretary, BP-Amoco Plc, one of the most controversial mergers of the 1990s as it amalgamated two of the world’s biggest companies.
On the board of the Competition Commission, monitoring and regulating corporate mergers.
John Rickford
On the board of BT, which has been frequently attacked for having too great a share of the market.
On the board of the Competition Commission.
Sir Alan Cockshaw
Chairman of Construction Company AMEC
Watson Steel, part of AMEC group, won contract to build the masts and cables on the Millennium Dome.
Chairman of the government’s Commission for New Towns. Chairman of the government agency English Partnerships, which is supposed to help ensure that new developments meet public needs.
On the board of the New Millennium Experience Company, firm set up by government to supervise the millennium celebrations.
Michael Mallinson
Property of industry lobby group for property developers, the British Property Federation.
Deputy Chairman, English Partnerships.
Peter Mason
Group Chief Executive, AMEC plc. In 1997 the company was the seventh largest recipient of support from the government’s Export Credit Guarantee Department for construction work in Hong Kong.
The trade body to which it belonged, The Export Group for the Construction Industries – has lobbied against the inclusion of environmental and human rights conditions in the Export Credit Guarantee Department’s loans.
On the Export Guarantees Advisory Council, which governs the payment of government money by the Export Credit Guarantee Department. Liz Airey, a non-executive director of Amec, is another member.
Professor Sir John Cadogan
Research Director of BP.
Director-General of the Research Councils, which are supposed to fund scientific work that doesn’t have an obvious or immediate application for industry.
Sir Anthony Cleaver
Chairman of the Atomic Energy Authority Technology Plc, which oversaw the organisational changes at Dounreay. These were criticised by the Health and Safety Executive as leaving the company in a poor position to decommission the site. Some researchers believed that Dounreay was the most dangerous nuclear site in Western Europe.
Chairman of the government’s Medical Research Council, which has been repeatedly criticised for failing to provide research funds for investigating the medical effects of radiation. Also member of the government’s panel on sustainable development.
Peter Doyle
Executive director, Zeneca Group Plc. Zeneca’s a major biotechnology firm, and was the foremost developer in Britain of GM crops. The company was engaged in a ten-year deal with the John Innes Centre in Norwich to find profitable applications for biotechnology.
Chairman of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, which gives substantial funding to the John Innes Research Institute. Employees of Zeneca sit on all seven of the BBSRC specialist committees.
Member of the government’s advisory committee on Business and the Environment.
Professor Nigel Poole
External and Regulatory Affairs Manager of Zeneca Plant Science; sits on five of the taskforces set up by EuropaBio, the lobbying organisation seeking to persuade European governments to deregulate GM organisms.
Member of the government’s Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment.
Professor John Hillman
Member of the board of the Bioindustry Association, the lobbying group seeking to ‘enhance the status of the industry within government’.
Director of the government’s Scottish Crop Research Institute, charged with supervising government-funded research projects and providing the government with impartial advice on biotechnology.
Antony Pike
Director General of the British Agrochemicals Association Ltd; Managing director of Schering Agrochemicals/ AgrEvo UK Ltd.
Chairman of the government’s Home Grown Cereals Authority (HGCA), carrying out and funding research into cereal crops. It has not funded any projects aimed at improving organic cereal production.
Professor P.J. Agett
Head of the School of Medicine and Health, University of Central Lancashire. This has received support for its research from three companies producing baby milk. Agett has personally received fees from two companies producing baby milk, including Nestle. The promotion of baby milk to developing nations is one of the most controversial issues in food and nutrition.
Chair of the Department of Health’s Committee on the Medical Aspects of Food and Nutrition Policy (COMA). Three other members of COMA have either directly benefited from payments from the baby milk manufacturers or belong to academic departments which have. One of those, who personally received payments was a Nestle executive.
Professor Peter Schroeder
Nestlé’s director of research and development.
Director of the government’s Institute of Food Research.
Sir Alastair Morton
Chairman of the Channel Tunnel construction consortium, Eurotunnel. This had debts of £9m.
Advised John Prescott on financing of Channel Tunnel Rail Link; Chairman of the Strategic Rail Authority responsible for advising the government on the use of significant amounts to the industry, and ensuring that rail transport gives good value for money.
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