Jacquie Forde

Jacquie Forde Facebook profile. Screengrab taken 31 October 2013.

Jacquie Forde (DoB 22.09.1962) is an Edinburgh based lobbyist who runs Quorate Public Affairs a small lobbying firm based in Glasgow at the same address as The Wellbeing Alliance, a non profit company of which Forde is also a director.

Call for probe into health forum link to Big Pharma

On 2nd March 2014 the Sunday Herald reported that Holyrood's Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee had been asked to probe two Cross-Party Groups (Cross-Party Group on Health Inequalities & Cross-Party Group on Chronic Pain) administered by Jacquie Forde of the Wellbeing Alliance because of her links to the pharmaceutical industry. Forde's other firm, Quorate Public Affairs, has the same Glasgow address and was created in the same month as the Wellbeing Alliance. The Sunday Herald reports:

Forde is listed as secretary and treasurer of the CPG on health inequalities and secretary of the chronic pain group.

She is also the sole shareholder of the Wellbeing Alliance, a not-for-profit social enterprise set up in October 2012 which lists its address as Newton Terrace in Glasgow.

Its website describes it as a team, of "public health trained social entrepreneurs who want to make a difference".

Forde's other firm, Quorate Public Affairs, has the same Glasgow address and was created in the same month as the Alliance.

Until recently, Forde's social media profile said of Quorate: "We provide high quality public relations and political lobbying services and our team have decades of experience working in and around the disciplines of Pharma, NHS, Media, Politics and Charities."

The Cross Party Group in Health Inequalities discloses the following in its most recent report:

Voluntary Secretarial Support from Jacquie Forde of The Wellbeing Alliance

Period: September 2011 to March 2013

32 days

Value of this support - My time is voluntary as an individual

Refreshments £401.50 provided by the Health Inequalities Alliance

£141.95 provided by the Wellbeing Alliance

In its March 2013 report, the Cross Party Group on Chronic Pain stated that 'Jacqueline Forde of the Health Inequalities Alliance' was elected unopposed as secretary on May 23 2012. In its subsequent report in June 2013 it notes that:

Secretariat support supplied on a voluntary basis by Jacquie Forde.

The Wellbeing Alliance provided the following resources to the Cross Party Group on Chronic Pain:

• January 23rd 2013 meeting refreshments were sponsored by the Wellbeing Alliance (£32.40)
• March 13th 2013 meeting refreshments were sponsored by the Wellbeing Alliance (£64.40)
• May 29th 2013 meeting refreshments were sponsored by the Wellbeing Alliance (£64.40)

A Parliament spokesman said: "Cross-party groups must comply with the Code of Conduct and declare who provides its secretarial support. Where that support is provided by a consultancy or public affairs firm, the SPPA Committee has the power to require the organisation to disclose its full client list."

Company appointments

Name of Company	Company Number	Position Held	Appointed	Appointment Ends	Outcome
Nth Resource Limited	SC308807	Director	20/09/2006	Present	Active
Quorate Public Affairs	SC434593	Director/Secretary	11/10/2012	Present	Active
Wellbeing Alliance	SC435567	Director	26/10/2012	Present	Active
Health Inequalities Alliance	SC375969	Director	31/03/2010	21/12/2012	Active – Proposal to strike off
Positive Change Works	SC301775	Director	05/05/2006	25/01/2008	Dissolved
Tenacious Women	SC341371	Director	15/04/2008	11/02/10	Dissolved
Quorum Sensing	SC377779	Director	03/02/2010	26/09/2013	Dissolved