Councillor Donald Whyte

Name: Donald Whyte

Electoral Ward: Longcross, Lyne and Chertsey South

Political Party:  Liberal Democrat

Date Elected: 2019 (next election 2023)

E-mail: cllr.donald.whyte@runnymede.gov.uk

Telephone: 01932 875419 / 07836 255902

Committees:  Corporate Management, Environment and Sustainability, Property Acquisitions Sub-Committee, Runnymede Joint Committee
Member Working Parties: Climate Change

Address:  169 Almners Road, Lyne, KT16 OBL

Councillor Donald Whyte Register of Interests

I Councillor Donald James Whyte a Member of Runnymede Borough Council, give notice that I, and where appropriate a 'relevant person' as defined in the Localism Act 2011 s 30(3)(b), have the following disclosable pecuniary interests and non-pecuniary interests:

Employment, office, trade, profession or vocation
Any employment, office, trade, profession or vocation carried out for profit or gain

Member
Councillor of Runnymede Borough Council receiving relevant allowance(s) and able to claim travel expenses
Relevant Person
Councillor of Runnymede Borough Council receiving the relevant allowance(s) and able to claim travel expenses

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

Member - Liberal Democrats - election expenses

Contracts
Any contract which is made between the Member and/or relevant person (or a body in which the relevant person has a beneficial interest) and the relevant authority:
a) under which goods and services are to be provided or works are to be executed; and
b) which has not been fully discharged

Member - None
Relevant Person - None

Land
Any beneficial interest in land which is within the area of the relevant authority

Member - owner of residence, 169 Almners Road, Lyne, KT16 0BL
Relevant Person - owner of residence, 169 Almners Road, Lyne, KT16 0BL

Licences
Any licence (alone or jointly with others) to occupy land in the area of the relevant authority for a month or longer

Member - allotment holder (Lyne Lane) rented from Runnymede Borough Council
Relevant Person - None

Corporate Tenancies
Any tenancy where (to your knowledge) a) the landlord is the relevant authority and b) the tenant is a body in which the relevant person has a beneficial interest

Member - None                                                     
Relevant Person - None

Securities
Any beneficial interest in securities of a body where a) that body (to the Member's knowledge) has a place of business or land in the area of the relevant authority; and b) 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

Member - Holder of shares with Royal Dutch Shell PLC and the National Grid                                                              
Relevant Person - None

Non Pecuniary Interests
Please read Section 8 of the Code of Conduct with regard to what might be considered a non pecuniary interest.  Note these are non statutory interests which are declared and recorded in the minutes of the relevant Committee meetings where applicable

Member
Chairman and member of Lyne Resident's Association
Member of RHS
Member of the Liberal Democrat Party
Member of the National Trust
Member of the Royal Academy, Member of Longcross Garden Village Stewardship Panel

Relevant Person
Member of Lyne Residents' Association
Member of RHS
Member of Rock Choir
Chair of Spelthorne and Runnymede Liberal Democrats
Member of the Liberal Democrat Party
Member of the National Trust

Date of form submitted: 6 May 2019, updated August 2019, May 2020

Councillor Donald Whyte Secondary Interests

Councillor Whyte has not declared any interests at meetings of the Council and/or Committees since May 2019. The forms recording interests declared at meetings are held for a period of six years and then destroyed.