Register of Interests

All House Service staff are required to declare potential and actual conflicts of interest to their line manager. This helps manage risks relating to conflicts of interest, which can arise between the personal interests of individuals involved in making decisions and the decisions that the governing body or staff need to make in the public interest.

The registered interests of senior House Service staff (grade SCS2 and above or members of the Commons Executive Board) are published on this website in line with other existing proactive publications.

Benger, John

Title	Clerk of the House, Corporate Officer and Accounting Officer
Responsibilities	Ultimately responsible for all budgets
Remunerated Interests	Nil
Unremunerated Interests	Use of official residence (ex officio) Member - Study of Parliament Group Member - Society of Clerks-at-the-Table in Commonwealth Parliaments Member - Association of Secretaries General of Parliaments Mentor - Villiers Park educational charity
Shareholding	Nil
Miscellaneous	Nil

Coman, Isabel

Title	Managing Director of In-House Services and Estates
Responsibilities	Budget: In-House Services and Estates
Remunerated Interests	Nil
Unremunerated Interests	Nil
Shareholdings	Nil
Miscellaneous	Nil

Cwynarski, Marianne

Title	Director General (Operations) of the House of Commons
Responsibilities	Various roles as delegated at Board and through the Executive Committee
Remunerated Interests	Nil
Unremunerated Interests	Nil
Shareholdings	Nil
Miscellaneous	Nil

Davies, Sarah

Title	Clerk Assistant and Managing Director, Chamber and Participation
Responsibilities	Budget: Chamber and Participation
Remunerated Interests	Nil
Unremunerated Interests	Ex officio Trustee, History of Parliament, a registered charity Member, Society of Clerks-at-the-Table in Commonwealth Parliaments Member, Study of Parliament Group Trainee timekeeper and occasional fundraiser for Haringey Aquatics swimming club
Shareholding	Nil
Miscellaneous	Nil

Eddolls, Mandy

Title	Managing Director of People and Culture
Responsibilities	Budget: People and Culture
Remunerated Interests	Independent Member of the Board and Chair of People & Governance Committee Bron Afon Housing Association (Community Mutual Social Housing Association). Work completed in non-working time as part time employee of the House of Commons
Unremunerated Interests	Visiting Professor - London South Bank University
Shareholdings	Nil
Miscellaneous	Previously undertaken paid consultancy work for Eversheds Sutherland LLP, Personal friend of owner of consultancy firm that trades with the House. Does not have any part in allocating work to this individual.

Giles, Alison

Title	Director of Security for Parliament
Responsibilities	Budget: Parliamentary Security Department
Remunerated Interests	Director - Barnes Bridge Advisory Limited
Unremunerated Interests	Nil
Shareholdings	Nil
Miscellaneous	Nil

Goldsmith, Thomas

Title	Principal Clerk of the Table Office
Remunerated Interests	Co-author of How Parliament Works (8th edition) - published Nov 2018
Unremunerated Interests	Nil
Shareholding	Nil
Miscellaneous	Partner works for the Editor of the Spectator magazine.

Hamlyn, Matthew

Title	Chamber Business Team Strategic Director
Remunerated Interests	Lecture at Royal College of Defence Studies, 16 November 2021
Unremunerated Interests	Member - Tooting Commons Management Advisory Committee (since July 2020) Member - Committee of the Friends of Tooting Commons (since October 2020)
Shareholdings	Nil
Miscellaneous	Nil

Holmes, Alice

Title	Director of Communications (job share)
Remunerated Interests	Nil
Unremunerated Interests	Nil
Shareholding	Nil
Miscellaneous	Nil

Jennings, Clare

Title	Director of Communications (job share)
Remunerated Interests	Nil
Unremunerated Interests	Nil
Shareholding	Nil
Miscellaneous	Nil

Laurence Smyth, Liam

Title	Clerk of Legislation
Remunerated Interests	I have contributed to books on Parliament and I have in the past received a token amount in return (for example £50 worth of books)
Unremunerated Interests	Ex officio Trustee, May Memorial Fund, a registered charity which controls the copyright to Erskine May's Parliamentary Practice Associate, Institute for Government Fellow, Industry and Parliament Trust
Shareholding	Nil
Miscellaneous	Member, Society of Clerks-at-the-Table in Commonwealth Parliaments Member, Political Studies Association Legislatures Group Member, Study of Parliament Group

Lee, Colin

Title	Managing Director of Select Committee Team
Responsibilities	Budget: Select Committee Team
Remunerated Interests	Nil
Unremunerated Interests	Nil
Shareholdings	Nil
Miscellaneous	Fellow - Royal Historical Society

McBride, Gosia

Title	Head of the Governance Office and Secretary to the House of Commons Commission
Responsibilities	Budget: Governance Office
Remunerated Interests	Rental and holiday let income Temporary Head Table Office, Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe - October 2018, January 2019 and January 2020
Unremunerated Interests	Member, Study of Parliament Group Director of MMMS Property Management Ltd (freehold management company)
Shareholding	Nil
Miscellaneous	Nil

Salimi, Saira

Title	Speaker's Counsel
Remunerated Interests	Nil
Unremunerated Interests	Nil
Shareholding	Nil
Miscellaneous	Nil

Samson, Eve

Title	Clerk of the Journals
Remunerated Interests	Nil
Unremunerated Interests	Nil
Shareholdings	Holding in Fundsmith Equity Fund
Miscellaneous	Nil

Smith, David

Title	Managing Director of Parliamentary Digital Service
Remunerated Interests	Nil
Unremunerated Interests	Scrutineer - Saffron Walden Food Bank (registered charity in England and Wales, number 1176230)
Shareholdings	Nil
Miscellaneous	Fellow - Institute of Directors Fellow - British Computer Society Member - Institute of Digital Transformation Member - Electoral Reform Society

Stone, Kathryn

Title	Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards
Remunerated Interests	Independent Complaints Adjudicator for the Rail Ombudsman - 1 day per month. Appointed October 2018 NED Bar Standards Board - 1 day per month. Appointed January 2018
Unremunerated Interests	Fellow of IOD - occasional voluntary speaking for them Chartered Director Fellow of Burton and South Derbyshire College
Shareholding	Nil
Miscellaneous	Nil