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Councillor Ruth Duckworth
This register of interests was published on Friday, 16th August, 2024, 11.42 am.
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‘my spouse of partner’ means anybody who meets the definition in the Localism Act, i.e. my spouse or civil partner, or a person with whom I am living as husband or wife or a person with whom I am living as if we are civil partners.
1. Part A: Employment: - Any employment, office, trade, profession or vocation carried on for profit or gain
You
Spouse or a person who you are living with as a spouse*
Relief Customer Support Assistant, Ramsgate Library
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2. Part B: Sponsorship - Any payment or provision of any other financial benefit (other than from the Thanet District Council) made or provided within the relevant period* in respect of any expenses incurred by you in carrying out duties as a member, or towards the election expenses of yourself. This includes any payment or financial benefit from a trade union within the meaning of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992. * ‘relevant period’ means the period of 12 months ending with the day on which you give a notification for the purposes of section 30(1) or section 31(7), as the case may be, of the Localism Act 2011
You
The Labour Party
3. Part C: Contracts - Any contract which is made between the relevant person (or a body in which the relevant person has a beneficial interest*) and Thanet District Council –(a) under which goods or services are to be provided or works are to be executed; and (b) which has not been fully discharged. *“body in which the relevant person has a beneficial interest” means a firm in which the relevant person is a partner or a body corporate of which the relevant person is a director, or in the securities of which the relevant person has a beneficial interest; “director” includes a member of the committee of management of an industrial and provident society.
You
Spouse or a person who you are living with as a spouse*
None
None
4. Part D: Land - Any beneficial interest in land* which is within the area of Thanet District Council. * “land” excludes an easement, servitude, interest or right in or over land which does not carry with it a right for the relevant person (alone or jointly with another) to occupy the land or to receive income.
You
Spouse or a person who you are living with as a spouse*
Sensitive information held under Section 32 of the Localism Act
5. Part E: Licences - Any licence (alone or jointly with others) to occupy land* in the area of the relevant authority for a month or longer. * “land” excludes an easement, servitude, interest or right in or over land which does not carry with it a right for the relevant person (alone or jointly with another) to occupy the land or to receive income.
You
Spouse or a person who you are living with as a spouse*
None
None
6. Part F: Corporate Tenancies - Any tenancy where (to your knowledge) (a) the landlord is Thanet District Council’ and (b) the tenant is a body in which the relevant person has a beneficial interest. * “body in which the relevant person has a beneficial interest” means a firm in which the relevant person is a partner or a body corporate of which the relevant person is a director, or in the securities of which the relevant person has a beneficial interest
You
Spouse or a person who you are living with as a spouse*
None
None
7. Part G: Securities - Any beneficial interest in securities of a body where - (a) the body (to your knowledge) has a place of business or land in the area of the Thanet District Council; and (b) either –(i) the total nominal value of the securities exceeds £25,000 (face value) or one hundredth (1/100th) of the total issued share capital of that body; (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. * “securities” means shares, debentures, debenture stock, loan stock, bonds, units of a collective investment scheme within the meaning of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 and other securities of any description, other than money deposited with a building society
You
Spouse or a person who you are living with as a spouse*
None
None
*This applies not only to your own interests but also those of your husband / wife / civil partner / cohabitee or a person with whom you are living as husband / wife / cohabitee or as if you are civil partners, where you are aware that the other person has the interest.