Explanation of disclosable pecuniary interests (DPIs)

An explanation of words used on the DPI form.

Employment

Please give details of any employment, office, trade, profession or vocation carried on for profit or gain.

Sponsorship

Please give details of any payment or other financial benefit (other than from Canterbury City Council), made or provided for expenses over the last 12 months, for carrying out duties as a member, or towards your election expenses.

This includes any payment or financial benefit from a trade union.

Contracts

Please give details of any contract between you (or a company in which you have a beneficial interest) and a parish council for which:

(a) goods or services are to be provided or works are to be completed; and

(b) which has not been terminated (known as fully discharged).

Land

Please give details of any beneficial interest in land which is within the area of your parish council.

This means any land where you have the right to occupy or receive income from it, and includes your own home if it's in the parish area.

Licences

Please give details of any licence (held alone or jointly with others) to occupy land in your parish council area for a month or longer.

This means any licence (including leases) where you have the right to occupy or receive income from it, and includes your own home if it's rented and in the parish area.

Corporate tenancies

Please give details of any tenancy you hold where:

(a) the landlord is the parish council; and

(b) you are a partner or director of, or where you are in another role in which you have a beneficial interest in, the body holding the tenancy.

Securities

Please give details of any beneficial interest you have in shares, stock, bonds, debentures or other (known as securities) of a company where:

(a) that company (to your knowledge) has a place of business or land in the area of the Canterbury City Council; and

(b) either

i) the total nominal value of the securities exceeds £25,000 (face value) or one hundredth (1/100th) of the total issued share capital of that company; or

ii) if the share capital of that company is of more than one class, the total nominal value of the shares of any one class in which the relevant person has a beneficial interest exceeds one hundredth of the total issued share capital of that class.