Corporate
I operate through a company, Michael Cross Ltd (No 4732370), of which I am sole director and shareholder. The company's registered address is Acre House, 11/15 William Road, London NW1 3ER.
Competing interests
Column on healthcare for a Microsoft corporate website.
Hospitality and gifts
January 2008: Overnight trip to Aberdeen sponsored by Cisco Systems, which paid for flights, hotel accommodation and dinner. Attended the Government IT 08 conference dinner, sponsored by Autonomy.
February 2008: Attended reception at the conference Empowering Citizens through Technology and Participation (at which I spoke, for a nominal fee) and a pub evening hosted by Edelman Public Relations.
March 2008: Received an iPod Shuffle (approx value £35) in a conference bag from the Multos smart card software consortium.
April 2008: Took part in media training exercise for the International Salvage Union. Working lunches paid for by IT companies 1Spatial and Fujitsu.
May 2008: Trip to Tetra World Congress in Hong Kong sponsored by Motorola, who paid for flights, hotel accommodation and dinners. Carried out a writing assignment for Deloitte.
June 2008: Spoke at ePSIplus conference in Brussels, for which I received a contribution towards travel expenses.
July 2008: None.
August 2008: None.
September 2008: Keynote speaker at an e-government event in the Netherlands organised by the company Green Valley.
October 2008: None.
November 2008: Writing assignment for Reseach in Motion. Attended workshop in Athens on public sector information, with flights and accommodation funded by the PASOK party.
December 2008: Various seasonal lunches and drinks.
January 2009: Drinks party hosted by CA.
February 2009: Government IT conference dinner, sponsored by Xerox.
March 2009: None.
April 2009: None.
May 2009: Writing work for Deloitte LLP. Attended the Tetra World Congress in Munich as a guest of Motorola.
June 2009: None.
July 2009: Writing work for In4tek and Deloitte LLP.
August 2009: None.
September 2009: None.
October 2009: Paid participation in events run by I&DeA and West Midlands Regional Observatory.
November 2009: Return night and one night's accommodation at the e-ministers meeting in Malmo, Sweden, paid for by Dell.
December 2009: None.
January 2010: None.
February 2010: Business lunch with IBM. Research work for Deloitte LLP.
March 2010: Speaking fee from the Marketing Society.
April 2010: Writing work for Deloitte LLP.
May 2010: None.
June 2010: None.
July 2010: Attended LIFT conference in Marseille as invited speaker; accommodation and dinner provided by LIFT.
August 2010: None.
September 2010: Attended annual dinner of Socitm as guest of Socitm. Contract reporting assignment for Hays Ltd.
October 2010: None.
November 2010: Attended National Association of Data Protection Officers conference as guest speaker.
December 2010: Various seasonal parties. Received prize of a bottle of Champagne from Sourcewire Ltd.
January 2011: None.
February 2011: None.
March 2011: Attended and spoke at a conference in Paris on open data as a guest of Microsoft France.
April 2011: None.