Electoral Commissioners' register of declared interests 2025 - 2026

Our Commissioners must operate free from any actual, potential or perceived improper influence.

They are required to declare all interests that may cause a conflict in their role.

We also maintain a register of relevant gifts and hospitality that our Commissioners have been offered or received.

John Pullinger CB

  • Chair: Nuffield Foundation Finance Committee
  • Chair: Nuffield Foundation Steering Group on Children’s Information Project
  • Chair: Nuffield Foundation Audit and Risk Committee
  • Member: Nuffield Foundation Investment Committee
  • Member: Nuffield Council on Bioethics Governing Board
  • Director: John Pullinger Limited (Principal activity is professional advice)
  • Governor: National Institute for Economic and Social Research

Dame Susan Bruce

  • Chair: National Trust for Scotland
  • Non-Executive Director: SSEN (remunerated)

Sarah Chambers

  • Member: Determinations Panel of the Pensions Regulator (remunerated)
  • Member: Judicial Appointments Commission (remunerated)
  • Member: Consumer Expert Panel, and Health & Safety Panel, of Office of Rail & Road (remunerated)
  • Independent Panel Member: The Mayor of London Office for Policing & Crime (remunerated) 

Roseanna Cunningham

  • Member: Scottish National Party (SNP)
  • Related party: Sibling is a sitting Councillor for the Scottish National Party (SNP) 

Lord Gilbert of Panteg (Stephen Gilbert)

  • Director: Charles Street Partners Ltd
  • Member: House of Lords (remunerated)
  • Member: Conservative Party

Member: All party Parliamentary groups

  • General Aviation
  • LGBT+ Rights
  • Hospitality and Events in Wales
  • Hospitality and Events in Singapore
  • Hospitality and Event in Taiwan
  • ITV
  • Channel 4
  • BBC
  • Digital Regulation and Responsibility
     

Carole Mills

Non-Executive Director: University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust (remunerated)

  • Senior Independent Member
  • Chair: Quality & Safety Committee
  • Member: People & Culture Committee
  • Chair: Consultant & Recruitment Panels
  • Champion: Maternity & Neonatal Board Safety

Dr Katy Radford

  • Director: The Office of Identity and Cultural Expression (remunerated)
  • Chair: The British Council Northern Ireland Advisory Committee 

Sheila Ritchie MBE

  • Trustee: Macaulay Development Trust, Celebrate Aberdeen Ltd  
  • Trustee: Articulate Cultural Trust
  • Member: Scottish Liberal Democrats 

Chris Ruane

  • Chair: Mindfulness Initiative’s International Network
  • Board Member: Mindfulness Wales
  • Member: Labour Party
  • Related Party: Spouse works part time for a Member of Parliament

Professor Elan Closs Stephens CBE

  • President & Chair: Council of The Learned Society of Wales
  • Trustee & Board Member: Hay Global 

Declared interests for the Independent Adviser to the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee

Paul Redfern

  • Head of Financial Control and Compliance: University of Sheffield (remunerated)