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Dodgy geezer or what? Latest news is that trading in Transtec (one of Geoffrey's companies) shares was suspended just before Christmas. And how come Mandy's back but Geoffrey is still hiding somewhere? I think we should be told the truth about this bloke, maybe his autobiography will reveal a few things (yeah, sure!). Oh and if anyone has a copy of the DTI report into Jaguar, Mark would really like a copy.

His private jobs

Senior Executive, Industrial Reorganisation Corporation 1968-70; Financial Controller, British Leyland 1970-72; Managing Director, Leyland Innocenti (Milan) 1972-73; Chief Executive, Jaguar Cars 1974-75; Chief Executive (unpaid), Meriden Motor Cycle Workers' Co-op 1978-80 (Director 1980-82); Director West Midlands Enterprise Board 1982-85; Chairman, Transfer Technology (TransTec PLC); Central & Sheerwood; Swiss EDM/Agie UK; Oval; Sunnyside systems; Coventry City FC; The New Statesman magazine; StenBell Ltd; Latchuser Ltd; JCT Property (jointly held shares with his step-mother Pauline Robinson); Roll Centre Inc.; R J Engineering; Multiphase Systems PLC.

His political jobs

Labour Party Research Assistant 1965-68, Whilst in opposition he covered Science (1982-83) and Trade and Industry and Regional Affairs (1983-86)

Geoffrey Robinson was appointed as Paymaster General on 4 May 1997, the same day that Peter "Wendy" Mandelson was appointed Minister without portfolio (spin, spin).

How to contact him

House of Commons
London
SW1A 0AA

Phone 0171 219 4083 [House of Commons office]
Phone 01203 257870 [Coventry office: Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm]
Fax 01203 257813 [Coventry office]

His entries in the register of members interests

Registrable shareholdings

Transtec plcspecialised engineers (held in trust).

New Statesman Ltd. (held in trust).

Stenbell Ltd.; administrative services (held in trust).

Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests

Discretionary beneficiary together with my wife and other members of my family of the Robinson Family No 1 Trust and Robinson Family No 2 Trust (administered in Guernsey and commonly referred to as "The Orion Trust"). At my request any distributions to me from the trust have been suspended for the time of my ministerial office.

Some personal details

Born in 1938, Mr Robinson is married to Marie-lena with one (limping) son and a daughter. Educated at Emanuel School, London Clare College, Cambridge Yale University

In his spare time, he enjoys motorcars, gardens and architecture (yeah, right!). Another source reckons he likes reading and squash.

Member of the Transport and General Workers Union and the Fabian Society. Special interests: economy, industry and regional policy.

So what's he worth?

Shedloads, apparently. He's worth £30 million (according to him) and at least £12 million of that is in the offshore (Orion) trust that, admittedly he isn't the sole beneficiary of and neither is he getting any income from it while he's an MP. He's obviously wealthy though, as he can afford to lend Peter Mandelson £373K to buy a house. But wait, Geoffrey has a mortgage too! Allegedly he has a £1.75 million pound mortgage on a Lutyens mansion with The Cheltenham & Gloucester Building Society.

Now that's a bit odd, why does a multi-millionaire need to take out a mortgage? The only thing I can think of is that he's earning more money from his offshore investments than the interest he's paying on the mortgage. But hang on, he's stated that the income from his offshore investments has been stopped while he's an MP. Well, maybe he just couldn't afford it then?

Oh, and he was buddies with one Robert Maxwell. Seems they did a lot of deals with each other way back when! Now I wonder where that pension fund money got to?

He's also just (March 1999) been told off a couple more times by the parliamentary standards commission for not declaring members interests!

And what about this man?

How many more questions about his loan from Geoffrey Robinson will he have to answer? And what's he going to do with any profit he makes on the sale of his house?

Stop press

Former Paymaster General Geoffrey Robinson has been criticised for the third time by a Commons committee for failing to register his business interests. The Standards and Privileges Committee did acknowledge that none of Mr Robinson's omissions seemed to be intentional. But writing in the Committee's reports MPs did say a further error would be seen as "a serious matter". 'No intentional wrongdoing' The report said: "This is the third occasion on which we have found that Mr Robinson had failed to register interests. "None of the failures on which we have reported appeared to be intentional wrongdoing but we are concerned at their cumulative effect." The report added: "We are surprised that Mr Robinson appears not to have carried out a comprehensive review of his past shareholdings and directorships in order to find out whether there are any such failures of which the House is unaware." Mr Robinson, the MP for Coventry North West, resigned from the government last December when it came to light that he had loaned his then fellow minister Peter Mandelson £373,000 to buy a house in west London. Mr Mandelson, the former trade secretary, was also forced to resign over the affair. The committee upheld complaints against Mr Robinson by Tory MPs David Heathcoat-Amory and Geoffrey Clinton-Brown. Shareholdings missing It found that Mr Robinson's failed to register his 100% shareholding of the US-based Roll Center Inc, from 1988 to 1992. Mr Robinson has already acknowledged the mistake and apologised to MPs last year. A second complaint was upheld over Mr Robinson's failure to register a shareholding in RJ Engineering Ltd But the committee said: "We accept that it was not Mr Robinson's intention to hold equity in RJ Engineering Ltd and we recommend that no further action be taken."


Home CEWAP Mark Thomas 18:30 Club GM Food Car Cats Links		Here's Geoffrey!

		Dodgy geezer or what? Latest news is that trading in Transtec (one of Geoffrey's companies) shares was suspended just before Christmas. And how come Mandy's back but Geoffrey is still hiding somewhere? I think we should be told the truth about this bloke, maybe his autobiography will reveal a few things (yeah, sure!). Oh and if anyone has a copy of the DTI report into Jaguar, Mark would really like a copy.

His private jobs

Senior Executive, Industrial Reorganisation Corporation 1968-70; Financial Controller, British Leyland 1970-72; Managing Director, Leyland Innocenti (Milan) 1972-73; Chief Executive, Jaguar Cars 1974-75; Chief Executive (unpaid), Meriden Motor Cycle Workers' Co-op 1978-80 (Director 1980-82); Director West Midlands Enterprise Board 1982-85; Chairman, Transfer Technology (TransTec PLC); Central & Sheerwood; Swiss EDM/Agie UK; Oval; Sunnyside systems; Coventry City FC; The New Statesman magazine; StenBell Ltd; Latchuser Ltd; JCT Property (jointly held shares with his step-mother Pauline Robinson); Roll Centre Inc.; R J Engineering; Multiphase Systems PLC.

His political jobs

Labour Party Research Assistant 1965-68, Whilst in opposition he covered Science (1982-83) and Trade and Industry and Regional Affairs (1983-86) Geoffrey Robinson was appointed as Paymaster General on 4 May 1997, the same day that Peter "Wendy" Mandelson was appointed Minister without portfolio (spin, spin).

How to contact him

House of Commons London SW1A 0AA Phone 0171 219 4083 [House of Commons office] Phone 01203 257870 [Coventry office: Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm] Fax 01203 257813 [Coventry office]

His entries in the register of members interests

Registrable shareholdings Transtec plcspecialised engineers (held in trust). New Statesman Ltd. (held in trust). Stenbell Ltd.; administrative services (held in trust). Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests Discretionary beneficiary together with my wife and other members of my family of the Robinson Family No 1 Trust and Robinson Family No 2 Trust (administered in Guernsey and commonly referred to as "The Orion Trust"). At my request any distributions to me from the trust have been suspended for the time of my ministerial office.

Some personal details

Born in 1938, Mr Robinson is married to Marie-lena with one (limping) son and a daughter. Educated at Emanuel School, London Clare College, Cambridge Yale University In his spare time, he enjoys motorcars, gardens and architecture (yeah, right!). Another source reckons he likes reading and squash. Member of the Transport and General Workers Union and the Fabian Society. Special interests: economy, industry and regional policy.

So what's he worth?

Shedloads, apparently. He's worth £30 million (according to him) and at least £12 million of that is in the offshore (Orion) trust that, admittedly he isn't the sole beneficiary of and neither is he getting any income from it while he's an MP. He's obviously wealthy though, as he can afford to lend Peter Mandelson £373K to buy a house. But wait, Geoffrey has a mortgage too! Allegedly he has a £1.75 million pound mortgage on a Lutyens mansion with The Cheltenham & Gloucester Building Society. Now that's a bit odd, why does a multi-millionaire need to take out a mortgage? The only thing I can think of is that he's earning more money from his offshore investments than the interest he's paying on the mortgage. But hang on, he's stated that the income from his offshore investments has been stopped while he's an MP. Well, maybe he just couldn't afford it then? Oh, and he was buddies with one Robert Maxwell. Seems they did a lot of deals with each other way back when! Now I wonder where that pension fund money got to? He's also just (March 1999) been told off a couple more times by the parliamentary standards commission for not declaring members interests!

And what about this man?

How many more questions about his loan from Geoffrey Robinson will he have to answer? And what's he going to do with any profit he makes on the sale of his house?

Stop press

Former Paymaster General Geoffrey Robinson has been criticised for the third time by a Commons committee for failing to register his business interests. The Standards and Privileges Committee did acknowledge that none of Mr Robinson's omissions seemed to be intentional. But writing in the Committee's reports MPs did say a further error would be seen as "a serious matter". 'No intentional wrongdoing' The report said: "This is the third occasion on which we have found that Mr Robinson had failed to register interests. "None of the failures on which we have reported appeared to be intentional wrongdoing but we are concerned at their cumulative effect." The report added: "We are surprised that Mr Robinson appears not to have carried out a comprehensive review of his past shareholdings and directorships in order to find out whether there are any such failures of which the House is unaware." Mr Robinson, the MP for Coventry North West, resigned from the government last December when it came to light that he had loaned his then fellow minister Peter Mandelson £373,000 to buy a house in west London. Mr Mandelson, the former trade secretary, was also forced to resign over the affair. The committee upheld complaints against Mr Robinson by Tory MPs David Heathcoat-Amory and Geoffrey Clinton-Brown. Shareholdings missing It found that Mr Robinson's failed to register his 100% shareholding of the US-based Roll Center Inc, from 1988 to 1992. Mr Robinson has already acknowledged the mistake and apologised to MPs last year. A second complaint was upheld over Mr Robinson's failure to register a shareholding in RJ Engineering Ltd But the committee said: "We accept that it was not Mr Robinson's intention to hold equity in RJ Engineering Ltd and we recommend that no further action be taken."