Register of Interest

REGISTER OF INTERESTS

ISLE OF WIGHT COUNCIL/ NORTHWOOD PARISH COUNCIL/ COWES TOWN COUNCIL/ GURNARD PARISH COUNCIL.

All Councils require Members to complete this register within 28 days of their election.  If your circumstances change you are required, within 28 days of the change, to submit written notification of the change to the Monitoring Officer.

Name of Member…PAUL FULLER

I set out below my interests and those I am aware of relating to my spouse /partner under the various headings.

Disclosable Pecuniary Interests:

These are interests that are required to be declared by the Localism Act 2011 and the Relevant Authorities (Disclosable Pecuniary Interests) Regulations 2012.  These declarations relate to you AND any interests you are aware of relating to your spouse or civil partner or a person you live with as husband and wife or as if you were civil partners

Please put “None” where appropriate.

1. Employment, office, trade, profession or vocation carried on for profit or gain.

This includes any firm or company in which you, or your spouse, or your partner are a business partner or director.

MY INTEREST: ISLE OF WIGHT COUNCILLOR (FOR COWES WEST AND GURNARD)

INTEREST OF SPOUSE/PARTNER:  SELF EMPLOYED CLEANER AND PROPRIETER OF KAREN’S CRAFTS

2. Sponsorship

Any payment or provision of any other financial benefit (other than from Council activities) made or provided in respect of any expenses incurred by you or your spouse or partner in carrying out duties as a member or towards the election expenses of you or your spouse or partner. This includes any payment or financial benefit from a trade union within the meaning of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992.

MY INTEREST: PRIOR TO SERVING AS AN ISLE OF WIGHT COUNCILLOR IN 2009, THE GROUP STANDARDS NOT TIERS ENDORSED MY CANDIDATURE IN AN ADVERT FOR THE ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY PRESS.

INTEREST OF SPOUSE/PARTNER: NONE

3. Contracts

Any contract which is made between Parish/ Town Councils or the Isle of Wight Council and either:

a) you; your spouse; or your partner; or

b) firm in which either you or your spouse or partner is a business partner; or

c) a body corporate of which you or your spouse or partner is a director; or

d) a body in which you or your spouse or partner has a beneficial interest (that is a firm in which you or your spouse/partner is a business partner or a corporate body in which you or your spouse/partner is a director or an industrial and prudent society where you or your spouse or partner are a member of the management committee or a corporate body in which you or your spouse/partner have a beneficial interest in its securities  

(a) under which goods or services are to be provided or works are to be executed; and

(b) which has not been fully discharged.

MY INTEREST: NONE

INTEREST OF SPOUSE/PARTNER: NONE

4. Land

Any beneficial interest in land which is within the Isle of Wight, excluding an easement, servitude, interest or right in or over land which does not carry with it a right for you or your spouse or partner alone or jointly with another to occupy the land or to receive income.

Please give address or description sufficient to identify the location.

MY INTEREST:

74 WYATTS LANE, NORTHWOOD, COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT PO31 8QA

I HAVE CLOSE FAMILY MEMBERS LIVING NEARBY AT:

29 PALLANCE ROAD, NORTHWOOD, COWES.

(Grandparents)

19 CORONATION AVENUE NORTHWOOD, COWES.

(Parent)

INTEREST OF SPOUSE/PARTNER:  

74 WYATTS LANE, NORTHWOOD, COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT PO31 8QA

5. Licences

Any licence (alone or jointly with others) to occupy land in the Isle of Wight for a month or longer.

Please give address or description sufficient to identify the location.

MY INTEREST: NONE

INTEREST OF SPOUSE/PARTNER: NONE

6. Corporate tenancies

Any tenancy where (to your  knowledge) the landlord is the Isle of Wight Council and the tenant is a body in which you or your spouse or partner, has a beneficial interest.

Please give address or description sufficient to identify the location.

MY INTEREST: NONE

INTEREST OF SPOUSE/PARTNER: NONE

7. Securities

Any beneficial interest in securities (shares, debentures, debenture stock, loan stock, bonds, units of a collective investment scheme within the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 and other securities of any description other than money deposited with a building society) of a body where that body (to your knowledge) has a place of business or land in the Isle of Wight; and either

(i) the total nominal value of the securities exceeds £25,000 or one hundredth of the total issued share capital of that body; or

(ii) 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.

MY INTEREST: NONE

INTEREST OF SPOUSE/PARTNER: NONE

ADDITIONAL INTERESTS AGREED BY COUNCILS TO BE INCLUDED IN THE MEMBERS REGISTER OF INTERESTS.

Only your interests are required for these; not those of your spouse/partner.

1.    I am a member of or hold a position of general control or management in the following bodies to which I have been appointed or nominated by the authority as its representative:

COWES COMMUNITY BUS FORUM (Northwood Parish Council Representative);  NORTHWOOD PRIMARY SCHOOL (Isle of Wight Council Local Authority Representative), LOCAL ACCESS FORUM (Isle of Wight Council Representative), ISLE OF WIGHT AREA OF OUTSTANDING NATURAL BEAUTY (AONB) PARTNERSHIP (IW Council Representative- Deputy), GURNARD COMMUNITY TRUST (Independent Representative); COWES YOUTH CLUB (Independent Representative); ISLE OF WIGHT FOOTPRINT TRUST (Independent Representative); THE FRIENDS OF NORTHWOOD CEMETERY (Trustee)

2.    I am a member of or hold a position of general control or management in the following:

a.    Public authorities or bodies exercising functions of a public nature:

NORTHWOOD PARISH COUNCIL, NORTHWOOD PARISH PLAN WORKING PARTY, NORTHWOOD PARISH COUNCIL’S TRANSPORT COMMITTEE

COWES TOWN COUNCIL, COWES TOWN COUNCIL’S TOWN IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE, COWES TOWN COUNCIL’S NORTHWOOD RECREATION GROUND COMMITTEE, THE LOCAL ACTION GROUP (Deputy for Cowes Town Council)

GURNARD PARISH COUNCIL, GURNARD PARISH COUNCIL’S COMMUNITY PROJECTS COMMITTEE, GURNARD PARISH COUNCIL’S NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN COMMITTEE. 

AS AN IW COUNCILLOR I SERVE ON THE REGULATORY COMMITTEE (WITH RESPONSIBILITY FOR PLANNING & LICENSING); THE OVERVIEW & SCRUTINY COMMITTEE, THE ECONOMY & ENVIRONMENT SCRUTINY COMMITTEE; THE CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE SCRUTINY COMMITTEE AND THE APPEALS PANEL AND OFTEN DEPUTISE AS INDEPENDENT COUNCILLOR ON THE HEALTH & WELLBEING SCRUTINY COMMITTEE.

I AM ALSO A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, WHO SITS ON THE ISLE OF WIGHT BENCH- WHO SERVES ON THE YOUTH PANEL AND DOMESTIC ABUSE PANEL.

MY DAUGHTER, ZARA WAS ELECTED TO SERVE AS A YOUTH COUNCILLOR FOR FROM DECEMBER 2012.   

b.    company, industrial and provident society, charity, or body directed to charitable purposes;

NONE.  I ALSO WISH TO FORMALLY PLACE ON RECORD THAT I AM NOT A FREEMASON, OR MEMBER OF ANY LIKE ORGANISATION.

c.    body whose principal purposes include the influence of public opinion or policy;

NONE.  I ADD THAT I HAVE NOT BEEN A PAID UP MEMBER OF ANY POLITICAL PARTY SINCE LEAVING THE GREEN PARTY IN 1994.

d.    trade union or professional association.

NONE.

DATED: 30th August 2012; Updated: 30th December 2012.