Register of interests

Councillor Ben Crystall

I, Councillor Ben Crystall, being a Member of East Hertfordshire District Council hereby give notice of the following disclosable pecuniary interests:

1. Your employment/business
Description of your employment activity Name of your employer body
Science Journalist Pharmawand as Freelancer
Partner - Consultant Digital Product (formally Intercom)
2. Any payment or provision of any other financial benefit (other than from the relevant authority) made of provided within the relevant period in respect of any expenses incurred by you in carrying out your 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.
Name of any person or body making payments
None
3. Any contract which is made between you and/or those persons referred to above (or a body in which you and/or those persons referred to above has/have a beneficial interest) and your authority under which goods or services are to be provided or works are to be executed and which has not been fully discharged
Description of contract
Director of Hertford Energy Now (HEN) - who own solar panels on three schools - Millmead, Morgans and Hunsdon JMI. HEN leases roof space from Herts County Council, and has a power purchase agreement in place at Morgans and Hunsdon JMI Schools.
4. Any beneficial interest in land which is within the area of your authority
Address/description of land interest Nature of interest
18b Bengeo Street, Hertfor, Herts, SG14 3ES Residential property with partner
5. Detail of any licence (alone or jointly with others) to occupy land in the area of your authority for a month or longer.
Detail address/description
HEN - has a rental contract with Herts County Council to occupy roof space at 3 primary schools (see section 3) each for a fixed twenty year period.
6. Detail any beneficial interest in securities of a body where that body (to your knowledge) has a place of business or land in the area of your authority; and either; the total nominal value of the securities exceeds £25,000 or one hundredth of the total issued share capital of that body; or 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 you and/or those persons referred to above has/have a beneficial interest exceeds one hundredth of the total issued share capital of that class.
Name of person or body
Shares in Hertford Energy Now (HEN)
Partner - Shares in Hertford Energy Now (HEN)
7. Detail any tenancy where (to your knowledge) the landlord is your authority; and the tenant is a body in which you and/or those persons referred to above has/have a beneficial interest.
Address/description of land
HEN leases roof space from Herts County Council at Millmead, Morgans and Hunsdon JMI Schools.

Other registerable interests

8. A body to which you have been appointed or nominated by the District Council
Name of organisation
None
9. Any body exercising functions of a public nature
Name of organisation
Hertfordshire County Council - Member
Hertford Town Council - Member
10. A body directed to charitable purposes
Name or organisation
Bengeo Community Garden
East Herts Archaeological Society
11. A body one of whose principal purposes includes the influence of public opinion or policy
Name or organisation
The Green Party - Member