Fran Carpenter – Declaration of Interest
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Member Registration of Interests Form
Part 1: Disclosable Pecuniary Interests
In accordance with the relevant legislation and the Code of Conduct, you must notify the Authority’s Monitoring Officer of any disclosable pecuniary interest. You must disclose your own interests, and any interests of your spouse or civil partner, or somebody with whom you are living as a spouse or civil partner.
Full details of disclosable pecuniary interests can be found in The Relevant Authorities (Disclosable Pecuniary Interests) Regulations 2012 (2012 No. 1464), and any amendments to those Regulations.
Please see page 5 for further guidance on how to complete this form.
Your name:
Cllr Fran Carpenter (Full name: Frances Carpenter)
Please complete the boxes below with the details of any disclosable pecuniary interests that you hold.
1. Employment, Office, Trade, Profession or Vocation
Please describe in detail any employment, office, trade, profession or vocation carried on for profit or gain, together with the name and trading address of your employer and, if you are self-employed or own a business, the name of that company, partnership or other entity. You should include any public authority to which you are elected, appointed or co-opted and from which you are in receipt of an allowance.
Member of Hampshire County Council
Member of Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire & Rescue Authority
Member of New Forest National Park Authority
Owner of Frantic Productions (sole trader business, full name of business: ‘Frances Carpenter trading as Frantic Productions’ – publishing and selling music education resources to schools)
2. Sponsorship
Please describe any payment or provision of any other financial benefit (other than from the Authority), including payments or financial benefits from a trade union, in respect of any expenses incurred in carrying out duties as a Member or towards election expenses.
NB: Sponsorship payments are disclosable where they were made within the period of 12 months ending with the day on which you give notification of the interest.
Receive member expenses (largely travel) in relation to work with: Hampshire County Council & HIOW Fire & Rescue Authority
3. Contracts
Please disclose any contract for the provision of goods or services or the execution of works that is made between the Authority and you (or a relevant person or a body in which you or a relevant person has a legal and/or beneficial interest).
Not applicable
4. Land
Please describe any beneficial interest in land within the New Forest National Park. If the land is not easily identifiable by a postal address, please provide further information, such as Ordnance Survey Co-ordinates, the Land Registry title or a location map.
None
5. Licences
Please describe any licence, whether held alone or jointly, to occupy land in the New Forest National Park for a month or longer.
None
6. Corporate Tenancies
Please disclose below any tenancy where:
- (a) the landlord is the Authority; and
- (b) the tenant is a body in which you or a relevant person has a beneficial interest.
None
7. Securities
Please describe below any beneficial interest in securities of a body where:
- (a) you are aware that that body has a place of business or land in the New Forest National Park; and
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(b) either:
- the total nominal value of the securities exceeds £25,000 or one hundredth of the total issued share capital of that body; or
- if the share capital of that body is of more than one class, the total nominal value of the shares of any one class in which you or a relevant person has a beneficial interest exceeds one hundredth of the total issued share capital of that class.
None
DECLARATION: I declare that the information set out above is a true and complete record of the disclosable pecuniary interests that I must disclose in accordance with the Localism Act 2011 and the Relevant Authorities (Disclosable Pecuniary Interests) Regulations 2012, each as amended from time to time
| Signature: | Date: |
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| 28/5/26 |
| Reason for update e.g. Following reappointment, annual review, changes to circumstances, etc. | Initials | Date |
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Part 2: Other Interests and Disclosures
Please disclose:
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(a) any membership, or position of general control or management, of
- any body to which the Authority has appointed or nominated you;
- any body exercising functions of a public nature;
- any body directed to charitable purposes;
- any political party;
- any body one of whose principal purposes includes the influence of public opinion or policy; and
- (b) any other interest that you consider may be perceived to influence your decision making as a Member of the Authority, including without limitation the receipt of gifts or hospitality, all other business interests, employments, directorships, appointments or positions, all receipts of grant or other funding, all land outside the National Park, etc.
Please also include any matter that relates to a family member or other close associate(s)
Member of the Conservative Party
Director (HCC Outside Body appointment) of Hampshire Foundation for Young Musicians
Member of the Red House Museum Joint Management Committee (HCC Outside Body appointment)
Joint owner with husband, David Carpenter, of 7 Cliffe Road, Barton On Sea, New Milton, Hampshire BH25 7PA (Home address)
Husband, David Carpenter, is also sole owner and landlord of Flat 45, Homemill House, Station Road, New Milton, Hampshire BH25 6HX
Please disclose any current / unspent: (i) bankruptcy, (ii) police investigation, (iii) criminal conviction, and (iv) disqualification as a company director.
None
DECLARATION: I declare that the information set out above is a true and complete record, as required by Part 1 and Part 2B of the Authority’s Code of Conduct
| Signature: | Date: |
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| 28/5/26 |
| Reason for update e.g. Following reappointment, annual review, change in circumstances, etc. | Initials | Date |
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Guidance for Completing This Form
When to declare
You must declare your interests as set out below:
- within 28 days of becoming a Member;
- within 28 days of any change to your interests or a new interest arising;
- where the interest is relevant to a particular matter that the Authority is dealing with, including at meetings of the Authority and its Committees. You will also need to consider, under these circumstances, whether a Part 2B interest amounts to being prejudicial within the meaning of the Code of Conduct, and whether you consider you may be perceived to have predetermined an item of business;
- where an interest is declared at a meeting please also notify the Monitoring Officer within 28 days of that meeting;
- in addition to completing this form, please expressly inform the Monitoring Officer of any planning application that affects you personally, because you are the owner or applicant or otherwise; and
- we also ask that you annually review and, if necessary, update your form.
Please note that failure to declare a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest correctly or on time and certain other failures to comply with the provisions of the Localism Act 2011 amount to a criminal offence.
What to declare
Please describe your interests in as much detail as possible, so that a member of the public could easily understand the nature of the interest.
Please disclose all memberships at any tier of local government, including your appointing authority if any, and also including all Parish Council memberships and Parish Council Planning Committee memberships and particular positions of responsibility.
Please read the NPA’s Code of Conduct and Local Protocols before completing this form. Please seek advice from the Authority’s Monitoring Officer if you need help in completing this form and/or in seeking a dispensation under the Localism Act 2011 in respect of a DPI and/or where you consider an interest amounts to a ‘sensitive interest’.
