HC Deb 09 November 1989 vol 159 cc763-6W
Mr. Dobson

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy if he will list the names of the board members of electricity boards in England and Wales, giving the date of their appointment, salaries and, where full time, their previous job and, where part time, their other jobs.

Mr. Wakeham

The information is as follows:

Board membership of the electricity boards of England and Wales as at 8 November 1989.
Name Status Date of Appointment
Central Electricity Generating Board
Lord Marshall of Goring, Kt, CBE Chairman 1 July 1982
G. A. W. Blackman, CBE Deputy Chairman 16 April 1986
J. W. Baker Full-time Member 5 September 1980
D. A. Davis Full-time Member 5 June 1984
F. Ledger, OBE Full-time Member 16 April 1986
R. V. Giordano Non-executive Member 1 July 1982
Sir Terence Beckett, KBE Non-executive Member 1 January 1987
D. A. Walker Non-executive Member 1 May 1987
Name Status Date of Appointment
London Electricity Board
J. J. Wilson Chairman 10 March 1986
C. A. Prendergast, CBE Non-executive Member 1 August 1983
L. W. G. Priestley Non-executive Member 1 October 1983
R. B. Yearsley Non-executive Member 1 September 1984
The Right Hon. Baroness Gardner of Parkes, JP Non-executive Member 19 November 1984
M. Young Non-executive Member 26 January 1987
G. M. W. Owen Non-executive Member 1 May 1989
Name Status Date of Appoinment
South Eastern Electricity Board
G. A. Squair Chairman 1 June 1983
D. A. Lovesey Deputy Chairman 29 April 1987
Dame Margaret Weston, DBE Non-executive Member 23 February 1981
R. A. Cox, CBE Non-executive Member 1 June 1983
Sir Ian McLeod, JP Non-executive member 1 August 1983
M. J. Calvert, JP Non-executive Member 14 January 1985
A. Ferry, MBE Non-executive member 6 April 1987
Sir Keith Stuart Non-executive Member 2 October 1989
Name Status Date of Appoinment
Southern Electricity Board
D. A. Ross Chairman 1 April 1984
H. R. Casley Deputy Chairman 1 October 1986
A. G. Stoughton-Harris Non-executive Member 1 February 1981
R. J. Cowley Non-executive Member 1 December 1986
N. G. L. Timpson Non-executive Member 1 January 1987
G. H. Wilson Non-executive Member 30 May 1989
Name Status Date of Appointment
South Western Electricity Board
A. W. Nicol Chairman 29 April 1987
J. J. Seed Deputy Chairman 1 June 1986
J. O. Gough, MBE Non-executive Member 1 October 1980
J. R. W. R. Carew Pole Non-executive member 1 June 1981
A. P. Hichens Non-executive member 3 July 1989
A. N. Thatcher Non-executive member 3 July 1989
C. M. Fisher Non-executive member 10 July 1989
Name Status Date of Appointment
Eastern Electricity Board
J. C. Smith, CBE Chairman 1 October 1982
W. Waring Deputy Chairman 18 July 1983
I. D. Coutts, CBE Non-Executive Member 26 May 1982
R. C. G. Chesterman, OBE Non-Executive Member 1 September 1984
Professor R. J. Eden, OBE Non-Executive Member 1 June 1985
J. N. Duncan Non-Executive Member 15 September 1989
M. S. Schreiber Non-Executive Member 15 September 1989
Sir Graham Wilkins Non-Executive Member 15 September 1989
Name Status Date of Appoinment
East Midlands Electricity Board
J. F. Harris Chairman 1 October 1982
D. W. Cowe Deputy Chairman 1 November 1985
G. H. Boyle Non-executive Member 1 June 1981
Mrs. D. J. Parker Non-executive Member 1 July 1983
G. N. Corah Non-executive Member 12 March 1984
A. G. Schroeder Non-executive Member 3 March 1986
Name Status Date of Appoinment
R. N. Gunn Non-executive Member 1 August 1989
A. N. R. Rudd Non-executive Member 1 August 1989
Name Status Date of Appointment
Midlands Electricity Board
B. S. Townsend Chairman 1 April 1986
R. K. Young Deputy Chairman 1 July 1987
F. C. Graves, OBE Non-executive Member 1 October 1980
Dr. M. D. Skillicorn Non-executive Member 23 March 1981
Dr. B. E. Marsh, JP Non-executive Member 1 January 1984
P. B. G. Williams Non-executive Member 1 January 1984
Name Status Date of Appoinment
South Wales Electricity Board
J. W. Evans Chairman 1 April 1984
D. H. Jones Deputy Chairman 10 October 1988
J. Foley, MBE Non-executive Member 1 January 1984
P. J. Phillips, OBE Non-executive Member 11 June 1984
Mrs. V. Pollard Non-executive Member 1 January 1988
D. J. Prosser Non-executive Member 3 April 1989
P. W. L. Morgan Non-executive Member 1 August 1989
Name Status Date of Appoinment
Merseyside and North Wales Electricity Board
B. H. Weston Chairman 3 September 1985
R. T. Gales Deputy Chairman 1 March 1978
Dr. R. H. Cummings, OBE Non-executive Member 7 January 1980
J. M. Griffiths, OBE, JP Non-executive Member 8 January 1981
Mrs. S. M. N. Garston Non-executive Member 9 March 1981
R. B. de Zouche, OBE Non-executive Member 1 April 1984
J. A. Hooson Non-executive Member 1 August 1984
Name Status Date of Appointment
Yorkshire Electricity Board
J. Porteous Chairman 1 November 1984
J. S. Tysoe Deputy Chairman 3 September 1985
D. B. Clark, CBE Non-executive Member 1 November 1980
P. A. Smith Non-executive Member 1 June 1981
J. P. M. Denny Non-executive Member 19 March 1984
J. A. Rigg, CBE Non-executive Member 1 May 1989
J. N. Hardman Non-executive Member 1 May 1989
Mrs. D. C. Eccles Non-executive Member 1 September 1989
Name Status Date of Appoinment
North Eastern Electricity Board
D. R. Morris Chairman 5 June 1989
J. A. Harmsworth Deputy Chairman 1 January 1978
J. R. Holdsworth Non-executive Member 1 April 1989
Professor J. L. J. Machin Non-executive Member 1 June 1984
P. D. Nicholson Non-executive Member 16 December 1985
Name Status Date of Appoinment
North Western Electricity Board
K. G. Harvey Chairman 6 November 1989
A. Crowder Deputy Chairman 24 January 1983
J. V. Parsons Non-executive Member 16 January 1984
J. Brown, MBE, JP Non-executive Member 3 February 1984
N. D. Root Non-executive Member 18 April 1984
Mrs. J. M. Wilson Non-executive Member 1 February 1988

All the dates of appointment listed are first dates of appointment. Some members have been reappointed since those dates.

The list does not include the area electricity consultative council chairmen who are members of the area electricity boards but are appointed by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry.

The following salaries are paid to board members:

  1. (i) Salaries for CEGB chairman and deputy chairman:
    • The chairman is paid £111,000 per annum. The deputy chairman is paid in the salary range £75,000–£80,000.
  2. (ii) Salaries for CEGB full-time members:
    • Full-time members are paid in the salary range £60,000–£70,000 per annum.
  3. (iii) Salaries for CEGB non-executive members:
    • Two members are paid under £8,000 per annum; One member is unpaid.
  4. (iv)Salaries for area electricity board chairmen:
    • The chairmen are paid in the salary range £45,000–80,000 per annum.
  5. (v) Salaries for area electricity board deputy chairmen:
    • The deputy chairmen are paid in the salary range £45,000–£50,000 per annum.
  6. (vi) Salaries for area electricity board non-executive members:
    • Non-executive members receive under £5,000 per annum.

It is not possible without disproportionate cost to provide details of each appointee's background.

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