Interests

You need to know all of someone's 'interests' before you can judge whether there may be a conflict. 

Richard Sharp's Register of Interests declaration at the BBC was signed off in July last year by fellow Board member and senior independent director Sir Nicholas Serota, who seems to be leading the investigation into Richard's current BBC position. Two pieces of information are withheld under S40 of the Freedom of Information Act - the size of Richard's holding in DLL Capital 2, where 'certain investment decisions are delegated to a blind trust trustee', and the size of Richard's holding in the social media company Kyra (mentioned here). 

Meanwhile Sir Nicholas Serota's Register of Interests declaration was signed off by, yes, Richard Sharp, in July last year. It notes "Personal interests have been declared – details published below. Some declarations may be withheld from publication under the Data Protection Act."

Mr Sharp appears to have signed off all external board members declarations of personal interest in one go on July 12, 2022. All - Shumeet Banerji, Sir Damon Buffini, Elan Closs Stephens, Sir Robbie Gibb, Muriel Grey, Ian Hargreaves and Sir Nicholas Serota - have at least one element withheld from publication. 

Do you think Mr Sharp called a video meeting of the BBC Board yesterday morning to review his position and next steps ?  Did he offer to resign ?  When will we see the minutes ?