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My business set-up and declarations of interests |
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 Occasional 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.
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