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Councillor for Garscadden/Scotstounhill, Bailie Elizabeth Cameron is a member of the Scottish Labour Party. On the Register of Councillors' Interests, she declares 'my husband, Duncan F. Cameron, is a Partner of a firm of Educational Consultants, C.M. Associates. It is not without the bounds of possibility that he will, through his company, tender for work that may be local government related.'<ref>Register of Councillors' Interests [http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/C0F25EE1-14D0-46D7-9618-FD76F31CB8A7/0/REGISTEROFMEMBERSElizabethCameron.pdf (accessed 2 march 2008)]</ref>
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Further, Cameron declares the following directorships:
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Vice Chair, Glasgow City Marketing Bureau (remunerated)
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Vice Chair, Glasgow Cultural Enterprises (remunerated)
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Chair, Culture and Sport, Glasgow (unremeunerated)
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She also declares the following non-financial interests:
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Board member Hutcheson Grammar School
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Board member RSNO Chorus Trust
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Chair: Culture and Sport Glasgow
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Chair: Scottish Baroque Ensemble
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Concert Hall Vice Chair GCE
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Doctor of Glasgow's three universities, Glasgow, Strathclyde and Caledonian
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Hon Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons
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Member of Jazz Festival Board
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Member of National Youth Choir Board
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Member of the Board of Westbourne Music
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Member the Museums Association United Kingdom
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Member: Arches Theatre Co.
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Member: City of Unesco Steering Group
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Member: Glasgow Film Theatre
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Member: Les Rencontres European Cultural Network
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Member: North Glasgow College Board
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Member: Scottish International Piano Competition
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Member: Si Tous Les Ports du Monde
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NB Son-in-law David Collman is Chair of Board in the Botanics - Possible links with GCC/CSG
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Patron of the Glasgow Celtic Society (for the promotion of Gaelic language and Culture)
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According to an article in the ''Sunday Times'' in Scotland, while lord provost of Glasgow, the politician Baillie Liz Cameron racked up 'travel expenses of £60,000, 11 times the amount spent by her counterpart in Edinburgh, Lesley Hinds. ... The lord provost’s travels included an indispensable trip to New York for its Tartan Day celebrations, at a cost of £17,000. A visit to Sri Lanka after the tsunami racked up another £12,000, though ironically its purpose was to see how relief money raised in Glasgow was being spent.' <ref>Fiona McCade [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2090-2001319,00.html Restless Native: If they’re game arrest them]Fiona McCade ''The Sunday Times'' 22 January 2006 (accessed 6/2/08)</ref>
 
According to an article in the ''Sunday Times'' in Scotland, while lord provost of Glasgow, the politician Baillie Liz Cameron racked up 'travel expenses of £60,000, 11 times the amount spent by her counterpart in Edinburgh, Lesley Hinds. ... The lord provost’s travels included an indispensable trip to New York for its Tartan Day celebrations, at a cost of £17,000. A visit to Sri Lanka after the tsunami racked up another £12,000, though ironically its purpose was to see how relief money raised in Glasgow was being spent.' <ref>Fiona McCade [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2090-2001319,00.html Restless Native: If they’re game arrest them]Fiona McCade ''The Sunday Times'' 22 January 2006 (accessed 6/2/08)</ref>
  

Revision as of 19:32, 2 March 2008

Councillor for Garscadden/Scotstounhill, Bailie Elizabeth Cameron is a member of the Scottish Labour Party. On the Register of Councillors' Interests, she declares 'my husband, Duncan F. Cameron, is a Partner of a firm of Educational Consultants, C.M. Associates. It is not without the bounds of possibility that he will, through his company, tender for work that may be local government related.'[1]


Further, Cameron declares the following directorships:

Vice Chair, Glasgow City Marketing Bureau (remunerated)

Vice Chair, Glasgow Cultural Enterprises (remunerated)

Chair, Culture and Sport, Glasgow (unremeunerated)


She also declares the following non-financial interests:

Board member Hutcheson Grammar School

Board member RSNO Chorus Trust

Chair: Culture and Sport Glasgow

Chair: Scottish Baroque Ensemble

Concert Hall Vice Chair GCE

Doctor of Glasgow's three universities, Glasgow, Strathclyde and Caledonian

Hon Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons

Member of Jazz Festival Board

Member of National Youth Choir Board

Member of the Board of Westbourne Music

Member the Museums Association United Kingdom

Member: Arches Theatre Co.

Member: City of Unesco Steering Group

Member: Glasgow Film Theatre

Member: Les Rencontres European Cultural Network

Member: North Glasgow College Board

Member: Scottish International Piano Competition

Member: Si Tous Les Ports du Monde

NB Son-in-law David Collman is Chair of Board in the Botanics - Possible links with GCC/CSG Patron of the Glasgow Celtic Society (for the promotion of Gaelic language and Culture)


According to an article in the Sunday Times in Scotland, while lord provost of Glasgow, the politician Baillie Liz Cameron racked up 'travel expenses of £60,000, 11 times the amount spent by her counterpart in Edinburgh, Lesley Hinds. ... The lord provost’s travels included an indispensable trip to New York for its Tartan Day celebrations, at a cost of £17,000. A visit to Sri Lanka after the tsunami racked up another £12,000, though ironically its purpose was to see how relief money raised in Glasgow was being spent.' [2]

In 2006, Liz Cameron was made an officer of the Orde des Arts et des Lettres, one of France's leading cultural decorations. [3]

Notes

  1. Register of Councillors' Interests (accessed 2 march 2008)
  2. Fiona McCade Restless Native: If they’re game arrest themFiona McCade The Sunday Times 22 January 2006 (accessed 6/2/08)
  3. BBC, Lord Provost Honoured by France, 6 July 2006.