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NEWS
Financial statement
NASUWT statement to members for year ending 31 December 2013
The following statement is required to be made to members of the Union to comply with the Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Act 1993, which introduced a provision requiring trade unions to provide each of their members with a statement giving financial and other details of its affairs for the period covered by the Annual Return.
a. Total income of the Union (excluding Political Fund) £31,862,474. Total expenditure of Union (excluding Political Fund) £31,903,101.
b. Total subscriptions from members (excluding Political Fund) £28,753,399
c. Total income of the Political Fund £197,293. Total expenditure of the Political Fund £171,990.
d. A statement of the total salary and benefits paid to the General Secretary, President and Members of National Executive is given below.
e. A member who is concerned that some irregularity may be occurring or has occurred in the conduct of the financial affairs of the Union may take steps with a view to investigating further, obtaining clarification and, if necessary, securing regularisation of the conduct.
The member may raise any such concern with one or more of the following as it seems appropriate to raise it with: the officials of the Union, the auditor or auditors of the Union, the Certification Officer (who is an independent officer appointed by the Secretary of State) or the police.
Where a member believes that the financial affairs of the Union have been or are being conducted in breach of the law or in breach of the Rules of the Union and contemplates bringing civil proceedings against the Union or responsible officials or trustees, s/he should consider obtaining independent legal advice.
Set out below is the report made by our auditors, Crowe Clark Whitehill, on the annual accounts presented at Conference.
Auditor’s report
We have audited the accounts on pages 2 to 19 which have been prepared under the accounting policies set out on page 19. This report is made solely to the Association’s members, as a body, in accordance with the United Kingdom Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the Association’s members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditors’ report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the Association and the Association’s members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.
Respective responsibilities of the Executive Committee and Auditors
Trade Union law and rules of the Association require the Executive Committee to prepare accounts for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Association and of the surplus or deficit of the Association for that year. The financial information for the Annual Return is extracted from the audited accounts. In preparing the accounts, the Executive Committee is required to:
• select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
• make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
• prepare the accounts on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the Association will continue in operation.
The Executive Committee is responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Association and to enable it to ensure that the accounts comply with Chapter III of the United Kingdom Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992. It is also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Association and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
We have been appointed as auditor under section 33 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 and report in accordance with section 36 of that Act.
Our Responsibility is to audit and express an opinion on the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and International Standards on Auditing (UK and Ireland). Those standards require us to comply with the Auditing Practices Board’s Ethical Standards for Auditors.
Scope of the audit of the Financial Statements
An audit involves obtaining evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements sufficient to give reasonable assurance that the financial statements are free from material misstatement, whether caused by fraud or error. This includes an assessment of: whether the accounting policies are appropriate to the union’s circumstances and have been consistently applied and adequately disclosed; the reasonableness of significant accounting estimates made by the officers; and the overall presentation of the financial statements.
We read all the financial and non-financial information in the financial statements to identify material inconsistencies with the audited financial statements. If we become aware of any apparent material misstatements or inconsistencies we consider the implications for our report
Opinion on the Financial Statements
In our opinion, the financial statements:
• give a true and fair view of the state of the group and Union’s affairs as at 31 December 2013 and of its surplus/deficit for the year then ended;
• have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice; and
• have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992.
Matters on which we are required to report by exception
We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters where the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:
• proper accounting records have not been kept;
• a satisfactory system of control over its accounting records, cash holdings and receipts and remittances has not been maintained; or
• the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns.
NASUWT statement to members for year ending 31 December 2013
General Secretary Total benefits £
Chris Keates
Gross Salary 100,029.96
Employers’ NI 11,5301.01
Payment into Defined Benefits Pension Scheme 25,707.90
Benefits 4,867.00
Total 142,135.87
Presidents
Paula Roe 1,360.73
Mick Lyons 3,989.04
Executive
Victor Agüera 900.27
John Allison 1,500.00
Mark Morris 69.42
Celia Foote 1,623.70
Keith Muncey 2,137.92
Debbie Barefoot 652.57
John Girdley 1,886.80
Suzanne Nantcurvis 1,699.80
Geoff Branner 1,669.65
Claudia Glasgow 1,621.31
John Needham 451.09
Anne Brimacombe 1,451.65
Michael Grant 3,632.59
Paul Nesbitt 63.92
Wayne Broom 1,800.54
Linda Gray 2,757.60
Bernie Pardon 171.90
Fred Brown 44.28
Alan Hackett 3,040.88
Ian Phillips 3,941.01
Mick Burrows 1,704.75
John Hall 2,702.58
Kirsty Price 1,353.52
Neil Butler 2,653.08
Julia Harris 550.50
Timothy Ramsden 1,526.99
Graham Cluer 1,109.35
David Heal 1,657.50
John Rimmer 918.51
Colin Collis 1,242.60
Chris Holland 1,891.81
James Rowlands 625.46
Bill Cook 2,097.92
Karen Hopwood 4,807.19
Peter Scott 2,904.09
Brian Cookson 1,661.11
Kim Jamson 3,337.45
Jane Setchfield -
Tim Cox 1,213.04
Shane Johnswager 1,219.33
Eric Skyte 3,514.99
Andrew Curtis 1,693.99
David Kitchen 1,710.60
Nick Trier 43.30
Graham Dawson 1,513.25
Dan McCarthy 2,526.28
Kathy Wallis 2,783.73
Mike Dawson 285.12
Pam Milner 1,728.84
Paul Watkins 1,239.90
Paul Desgranges 3,113.69
Derek Moore 7,584.07
David White 72.00
Mark Dickinson 1,810.75
Kathy Duggan 2,385.29
David Morgan -
Dave Wilkinson 141.84
Michelle Williams 3,188.91
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