I made a complaint against 5 Parish Councillors for not keeping their Register of Interests up to date. The law requires that each Councillor informs the Monitoring Officer of any changes within 28 days. On the top of the form it says:
I, (insert name), a Parish Councillor, give notice that I have set out below under the appropriate headings my interests, which are required to be declared under section 29 of the Localism Act 2011. Within 28 days of becoming aware of any change to the interests specified in this notice, I will provide written notification to the authority's Monitoring Officer of this change.
How this complaint started was having looked at Simon Crocker Register of Interests whether other had done the same. I looked on the Cambourne Parish Council website and found nothing.
(Localism Act 2011 Chapter 7 Section 29 (7) A parish council must, if it has a website, secure that its register is published on its website.)
I looked on the SCDC website and found the Parish Council register of interests.
This showed that Sean Masters owns Luxury Watch Hire (which was Luxury Watch Hire Ltd but was compulsory dissolved on 6/10/2015). Looking on Duedil I found that Sean Masters was a director of 2 companies when he was co-opted on the Parish Council on 20th May 2014. These were Auto Consultants Ltd (compulsory dissolved on 21/10/2014) and Motorbid Ltd (compulsory dissolved on 21/10/2014). The last two companies were not entered on his Register of Interests and should have been.
From the looks of it Sean starts up limited companies for them only to be compulsory dissolved. No annual returns or accounts submitted. Whilst compulsory dissolving of companies and the non-filing of documents is a matter for Companies House the only bearing is Sean should have declared these on his Register of Interests and once dissolved removed them.
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