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| − | *[[Aspen Insurance Holdings]] (AIH) - chairman. In 2009 the ''Sunday Times'' revealed he had "earned £200,000 in a year as chairman of a Bermuda-based company that avoided paying more than £100million a year in taxes". [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1163884/City-Minister-pockets-200-000-company-set-Bermuda-dodged-100million-YEAR-taxes.html#ixzz1HX68d8Iy City Minister pockets £200,000 from company he set up in Bermuda that dodged £100million a YEAR in taxes], ''Mail on Sunday'', 22 March 2009, accessed 24 March 2011 </ref> <ref>Catherine Boyle and Suzy Jagger, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5956537.ece Pressure builds on City Minister Lord Myners to resign], ''The Times'', 23 March 2009 | + | *[[Aspen Insurance Holdings]] (AIH) - chairman. In 2009 the ''Sunday Times'' revealed he had "earned £200,000 in a year as chairman of a Bermuda-based company that avoided paying more than £100million a year in taxes". [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1163884/City-Minister-pockets-200-000-company-set-Bermuda-dodged-100million-YEAR-taxes.html#ixzz1HX68d8Iy City Minister pockets £200,000 from company he set up in Bermuda that dodged £100million a YEAR in taxes], ''Mail on Sunday'', 22 March 2009, accessed 24 March 2011 </ref> <ref>Catherine Boyle and Suzy Jagger, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5956537.ece Pressure builds on City Minister Lord Myners to resign], ''The Times'', 23 March 2009 </ref> |
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Revision as of 15:56, 24 March 2011
Baron Paul Myners (born 1 April 1948) was Financial Services Secretary - or City Minister - in the UK Treasury department until May 2010. He was made a minister and peer by former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown in October 2008.
Robert Peston of the BBC says of Myners:
- If there is such a thing as a Brownite establishment class, Myners would be one of its elders.[1]
Positions
Previous posts
- Land Securities, Chair
- Guardian Media Group, Chair
- Marks & Spencer, Chair
- Gartmore, a pension fund manager, Chair
- Member of the court of the Bank of England
- National Pensions Savings Scheme, chair designate. NPSS is intended to deliver cheap pensions to relatively low-paid workers.
- Powergen - PowerGen
- Aspen Insurance Holdings (AIH) - chairman. In 2009 the Sunday Times revealed he had "earned £200,000 in a year as chairman of a Bermuda-based company that avoided paying more than £100million a year in taxes". City Minister pockets £200,000 from company he set up in Bermuda that dodged £100million a YEAR in taxes, Mail on Sunday, 22 March 2009, accessed 24 March 2011 </ref> [2]
References
- ↑ Robert Peston, Who Runs Britain? 2008, page 124
- ↑ Catherine Boyle and Suzy Jagger, Pressure builds on City Minister Lord Myners to resign, The Times, 23 March 2009
