Notification of Disclosable Interests – Jo Coles, Deputy Mayor for Policing, Fire and Crime

NORTH YORKSHIRE ELECTED LOCAL POLICING BODY

SCHEDULE PART 1 PARAGRAPH 1(e) ELECTED LOCAL POLICING BODIES (SPECIFIED INFORMATION) ORDER 2011 (SI 2011/3050) as amended by THE YORK AND NORTH YORKSHIRE COMBINED AUTHORITY ORDER 2023

NOTIFICATION OF DISCLOSABLE INTERESTS

DEPUTY MAYOR FOR POLICING, FIRE AND CRIME

In this notification of disclosable interests:-

“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;

“land” includes 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;

“elected local policing body” means the Mayor of York & North Yorkshire or the Deputy Mayor for Policing, Fire and Crime as the context dictates

“relevant period” means the period of 12 months ending with the day on which the relevant person makes an entry, amendment or deletion to the register of disclosable interest.

“relevant office holder” means the person who is appointed as Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime who is making the notification of disclosable interest set out below in accordance with Article 1(2)(a) of the Elected Local Policing Bodies (Specified Information) Order 2011 as amended by the York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority Order 2023.

“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.

I, JO COLES

hereby give notice of the following disclosable interests in accordance with Part 1 Paragraph 1(e) of the Schedule to the Elected Local Policing Bodies (Specified Information) Order 2011:

(Note:  Please write “None” if you have no interest of the type referred to)

1. a) I carry on business as N/A

1. b) My employer is: York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority

I am a partner in the following firm(s): None

I am a remunerated director in the following company/ies: None

1. c) The following person(s) have made payments or provided other financial benefits to me in respect of expenses incurred by me in carrying out my duties, or in relation to my election expenses (including any payment or financial benefit from a trade union within the meaning of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 within the relevant period)

None – my role is appointed rather than elected.

1. d) I have a beneficial interest in securities of the following body or bodies where (to my knowledge) it has / they have:

(a)        place(s) of business or land in the area of the North Yorkshire elected local policing body

(b)        either

(i)       the total nominal value of the securities exceeds £25,000 or one hundredth of the total issued share capital in each of this body(ies), or

(ii)        if the share capital of each body is of more than one class, the total nominal value of the shares of any once class in which the relevant person has a beneficial interest exceeds one hundredth of the total issued share capital of that class

None

1. e) I have received a gift or hospitality with an estimated value of at least £25 from the following persons/companies/other bodies.

All gifts and hospitality are recorded on my website at: https://www.northyorkshire-pfcc.gov.uk/transparency/expenses/ and/or at https://democracy.york.gov.uk/mgDeclarationSubmission.aspx?UID=10737&HID=4546&FID=0&HPID=89893633 as the case may be.

1. f) I have a beneficial interest in the following land within the area of the North Yorkshire elected policing body. (Note: Please insert the address or sufficient description to identify the land)

Residential property as principal residence – the address is considered a Sensitive Interest and has therefore been withheld from this Notification.

1. g) I have entered into a licence (either alone or jointly with others) for (specify period) to occupy (description of land) within the area of the North Yorkshire elected local policing body

None

1. h) The North Yorkshire elected local policing body is the landlord of the following land and I am the tenant or the tenant is a firm in which I am a partner, a company of which I am a remunerated director or a body in which I have a beneficial interest (as described in d). (Note: Please insert the address or sufficient description to identify it)

None

1. i) I am the director of the company/ies, industrial and provident society/ies, charities or other bodies listed below

None

1. j) Other declarations

• I am an elected Member of City of York Council for the Westfield Ward.
• I am a Member of the Labour Party
• I am a Member of the GMB Trade Union

 

• My husband is a Trustee of Bombsquad Art Collective based in the City of York
• My husband is Director / sole trader of circlemakers.org

 

SIGNED:
Jo Coles

DATE:
05 August 2024

RECEIVED:
Deputy Monitoring Officer

DATE:
05 August 2024