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  David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
David John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville (born 24 October 1940) is a British businessman, politician and life peer for the Labour Party.
He is the son of Sir Robert Sainsbury and the nephew of Alan John Sainsbury, Lord Sainsbury of Drury Lane.
He is estimated to have a personal fortune of billions of pounds, due to his shareholding of his family's Sainsbury supermarket chain (estimated at 13%).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Sainsbury   (266 words)

  
 SPEAK - Profile of Lord David Sainsbury of Turdville   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Sainsbury is the key to why this government is so determined not only to build the primate laboratory, but also to impose GM crops and food products on the population, despite huge public opposition in both cases.
David Sainsbury and the whole world knows that he has a big shareholding in the supermarket chain and we also know that he was an investor in two companies that are going to make money out of GM food." (BBC Online, February 14, 1999).
Sainsbury's influence is now complete, as the government has hijacked the democratic and planning process, and will issue a decree on the matter at a time of their choosing.
www.speakcampaigns.org.uk /sainsbury.php   (1008 words)

  
 BBC News | UK Politics | Profile: Lord Sainsbury
Lord Sainsbury accepted and transferred control of his business interests to a blind trust - a standard practice for ministers to prevent any suggestion of a potential conflict of interest.
Even after Lord Sainsbury relinquished direct control of his assets he still managed to be named as the UK company director with the biggest annual equity earnings.
Lord Sainsbury's interest in science was kindled at Cambridge University in the sixties.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/442072.stm   (432 words)

  
 Sainsbury biotech cash conflict of interest
Sainsbury, the supermarket billionaire, was head of the charity at the time the company was created.
Sainsbury formally launched the £6.5m awards scheme, which is aimed at encouraging scientists to exploit their innovations in various biotechnology fields, in 1999.
Sainsbury's spokesman said last week: "Lord Sainsbury (now) has nothing to do with the Gatsby Foundation, all his commercial interests are in a blind trust and he has nothing to do with GM food policy.
ngin.tripod.com /261102a.htm   (632 words)

  
 Record number of engineers take an MBA - The IEE
The SchemeÂ’s sponsor, Lord Sainsbury, felt that the European industry, and British industry in particular, was being out-performed by other developed countries such as Japan in the late 1980s and the US in the 1990s.
Sainsbury noted that there were more senior executives with engineering and MBA qualifications at the top of industrial organisations in these extra-successful nations.
Chris Shelley, President of the Sainsbury Management Fellows’ Society, explains, “There is no denying that engineers have seen a steady decline in status in Europe during the last twenty years.” Markets have matured and technological advances continue to change the way in which the global economy operates in every way imaginable.
www.iee.org /OnComms/Circuit/benefits/Editorials/Features/record_number_engineers.cfm   (1188 words)

  
 Lord David Sainsbury of Turville and Software Patents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Lord David Sainsbury of Turville is the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State and Minister for Science and Innovation of the United Kingdom under the government of Tony Blair.
Sainsbury is a billionaire with some involvement in biotech patenting.
Sainsbury is unusual for a UK minister (according to the civil servants), because he is very interested in this policy area (innovation), and has wanted to be much more closely briefed and involved than most ministers would be, in what is seen as a primarily technocratic policy area, with comparatively little media opportunity.
wiki.ffii.org /DavidSainsburyEn   (693 words)

  
 Guardian | Sainsbury's facing pay defeat
Lord (David) Sainsbury, a former chief executive of the group and now science minister, placed his share stake in a blind trust controlled by Ms Portrait when he joined the government.
Her decision means that Sainsbury's now faces the real prospect of a heavy and embarrassing defeat at Monday's annual meeting, which is expected to be attended by hundreds of angry shareholders.
While David Sainsbury's stake is by far the largest, other members of the dynasty - including Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover, Simon Sainsbury, Sir Timothy Sainsbury and his wife - all have significant holdings.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4968020-108887,00.html   (512 words)

  
 New Statesman: The business: an American legal officer has shown that a few incriminating e-mails and a convincing ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Lord Lang, the former trade and industry secretary in the Major government, has been a non-executive director since 1997.
Surveying the mangled trolley-wreck that is J Sainsbury today, it's hard to believe that it was only 12 years ago that the supermarket group was the biggest and most profitable in the country.
If Sainsbury's had been as successful as Tesco in terms of profits growth over the past 12 years, the family holding would be worth more than [pounds sterling]10bn.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4711_133/ai_n8551849   (904 words)

  
 Minister "buying" Labour and corrupting political process
Lord Sainsbury's personal, political and financial interests span biotechnology, food retailing, and driving UK government policy in relation to technology and trade.
Lord Sainsbury, a junior minister at the Department of Trade and Industry since 1998 and a peer since 1997, is among a list of possible witnesses at the forthcoming inquiry by the Electoral Commission, which is to make recommendations to Parliament on future arrangements for party funding.
David Triesman, the party's general secretary, said: "As a member of Labour's audit committee, Mark Seddon should be aware that the largest area of growth in the party's income last year was indeed from individual members and supporters making small contributions.
ngin.tripod.com /030403c.htm   (974 words)

  
 Letter from Lord Sainsbury on Software Patents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It is unclear from this sentence whether Sainsbury thinks that his correspondents regards copyright or patents as a potential hindrance of the internet, oss and the software "industry".
Sainsbury asserts that patents have not hurt free software, the software sector in general, or the expansion of the internet so far, because the sector is still growing.
Perhaps Lord Sainsbury should influence the Council of Ministers to make sure that the remaining steps produce a directive that is in the public interest, rather than passively accepting the advice of the Patent Office.
www.ffii.org.uk /players/people/sainsbury.html   (1086 words)

  
 Technology Strategy Cross Government Information Day
Lord Sainsbury is the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Science.
He was appointed in July 1998, with responsibility for the Office of Science and Technology, DTI interest in education and skills, Innovation, Bioscience and Chemicals, the British National Space Centre, the Patent Office, and the National Weights and Measures Laboratory.
David Sainsbury became Lord Sainsbury of Turville in October 1997.
www.dti.gov.uk /technologyprogramme/sainsbury.htm   (184 words)

  
 Revealed: Lord Sainsbury's interest in key gene patent
As Science Minister at the Department for Trade and Industry and a member of the cabinet biotechnology committee Lord Sainsbury, aged 58, is accused of having a conflict of interest with his outspoken support for GM foods and business links to biotechnology companies.
A DTI spokesman for Lord Sainsbury told the Guardian he would not comment beyond the information contained in a statement put out last July when he was appointed Science Minister.
Lord Sainsbury was reported last month as saying he would stand aside in the case of a genuine conflict of interest.
www.netlink.de /gen/Zeitung/1999/990216.htm   (866 words)

  
 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy - Sainsbury
Moreover, the Sainsbury family put the same vision and fervor into their philanthropic efforts as they did in their great retail ventures.
Lord David Sainsbury established Gatsby in 1967 when he was 27 years old.
David Sainsbury was educated at Eton and at Cambridge, where he began by reading history but became fascinated by science.
www.carnegieinstitution.org /carnegiemedal/sainsbury.html   (517 words)

  
 Lords Hansard text for 5 Oct 2000 (201005-02)
My Lords, as to the last point, the noble Lord may be the sort of person who would get out from under, but my intention is to stay with this until the conclusion.
My Lords, the memorandum of understanding made clear where the work of the task force would be focused; that is, on the joint early warning systems and the joint crisis management systems and in tackling the potential for, and allegations of, intimidation of tanker drivers.
My Lords, what is proposed is essentially to put in place systems which can deal with this kind of crisis as effectively as possible, both in the short term and the long term.
www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/ld199900/ldhansrd/vo001005/text/01005-02.htm   (1476 words)

  
 At-Bristol Press Release - Lord Sainsbury visits Explore-At-Bristol to talk innovation
As part of Lord Sainsbury’s visit, he will be taking the opportunity to discover the exciting innovations taking shape in the redevelopment of Explore’s first floor.
Lord Sainsbury will be highlighting the importance of innovation and the impact it can make on business, during his pre-dinner talk in Explore’s Rosalind Franklin Room.
Lord David Sainsbury of Turville, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State says,” Innovation matters because it can deliver higher value-added products and services, new, cleaner and more efficient production processes and improved business models.
www.at-bristol.org.uk /About/Press/248_sainsbury.htm   (457 words)

  
 Independent, The (London): Outlook: Sainsbury's return?
The Labour peer was a disaster as chairman of J Sainsbury.
The truth of the matter is that Lord Sainsbury is much better at being minister for science and innovation, a position he has used to some effect to improve the affairs of the nation, than he ever was as a chairman of Sainsbury.
The company is not properly accountable to the City because it is controlled by the Sainsbury dynasty, but with the lion's share of the controlling family stake tied up in a blind trust managed by a polite but non-interventionist lawyer called Judith Portrait, nor is it properly accountable to its leading investor.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20040505/ai_n12787574   (546 words)

  
 Independent Online Edition > UK Politics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Lord Sainsbury of Turville, the supermarkets billionaire who is also Science Minister, has donated another £2.5m to the Lasbour Party, taking his donations to £8.5m since 1999.
Lord Sainsbury, who resigned as chairman of the supermarket chain to become a minister in 1998, has made other large charitable donations through his charitable trust, the Gatsby Foundation.
It was not clear how Lord Sainsbury's latest donation would be used, though the party has a £6 million overdraft and a £4.5 million mortgage on its London headquarters.
news.independent.co.uk /uk/politics/article113241.ece   (603 words)

  
 House of Commons - Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs - Minutes of Evidence
My Lord, does it occur to you that if you are going to put forward a policy that is going to be seen to be credible—let us be kind—then you will have to demonstrate the effect in practical terms.
(Lord Sainsbury of Turville) If the question is what are the implications in terms of the regional economy, which I think was your second question, which is separate from the scientific one, I think you have to look at what are the implications of this kind of machine in terms of the local economy.
(Lord Sainsbury of Turville) In terms of its impact on the regional economy—which is really in three categories—one is attracting business to it; secondly, working with businesses in the development of activities; three, in spin-off companies.
www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm199900/cmselect/cmenvtra/185/0032204.htm   (1162 words)

  
 GMWatch.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
While Lord Sainsbury is officially supposed to leave the room whenever GMOs are discussed at government meetings, even if this occurs, critically related areas like the strategic direction and the funding of the bio-sciences and of biotech related institutes fall directly within Sainsbury's area of responsibility and influence.
For instance, when Lord Sainsbury travelled to America as Science Minister in 1999, to research a report into biotechnology, he was accompanied by members of the BioIndustry Association, a lobby group for companies involved in GM food (the DTI helped pay their costs).
He is a council member and trustee of the Sainsbury Laboratory, as well as being on the Science Advisory Panel of the Gatsby Charitable Trust, along with Dr. Roger Freedman of Diatech.
www.gmwatch.org /profile1.asp?PrId=116   (1133 words)

  
 CNN Food Central: Blair stands by science minister over genetically modified food -- February 16, 1999
Lord (David) Sainsbury of Turville, former chairman of one of Britain's biggest supermarket chains, was reported by the Guardian to be the indirect owner of the patent rights of a gene which plays a key role in research into modified crops.
A spokeswoman for Sainsbury said the minister was "playing safe" by removing himself from discussion of GM issues.
According to the Guardian, Lord Sainsbury's blind trust is the owner of Diatech Ltd., a London-based company which owns the patent to a gene known as the cauliflower mosaic virus promoter.
www.cnn.com /FOOD/news/9902/16/britain.food   (402 words)

  
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 Sainsbury Stockbroker Results   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
SAINSBURY'S has recast itself as the listening supermarket since losing the title as Britain's biggest to Tesco last year.
David Sainsbury (Lord Sainsbury of Turville), executive chairman and...
J Sainsbury is likely to find itself in the grip of takeover speculation again today following reports...
www.find-stock-brokers.info /stock-broker/sainsbury-stockbroker.html   (570 words)

  
 Terra Firm no.24: The Zionists’ Rise to World Domination.
What was interesting about this, however, was that prior to the change in the law, tim sainsbury, a member of the house of lords and the tory government, allowed his company to engage in sunday trading.
David triesman is a jew and general secretary of the labour party.
Triesman was particularly annoyed that pilger suspected lord levy’s interest in peace in the middle east, “Saeb erakat, the palestinian chief negotiator, said recently: “Lord levy is a friend of mine and his heart is very much in the peace process..
www.geocities.com /carbonomics/MCtfirm/10tf24/10tf24o.html   (6576 words)

  
 Francis Bacon Image Gallery_Sir Robert Sainsbury   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In 1938, Sainsbury was asked by J B Manson, the anti-modernist director of the Tate, whether the gallery might borrow from him a study of Eve by the French sculptor Charles Despiau.
He was the second son of John Benjamin Sainsbury by his wife Mabel, née Van den Bergh, whose family, of Dutch Jewish origins, had made a fortune from the manufacture of margarine.
Robert Sainsbury was chairman of the trustees of the Tate Gallery, a member of the management committee of the Courtauld Institute and a member of the Art Panel of the Arts Council.
www.francis-bacon.cx /articles/04a_00.html   (973 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Lord Sainsbury of Turville was appointed Minister for Science and Innovation in July 1998.
David Sainsbury became Lord Sainsbury of Turville on 3 October 1997.
He was a member of the Committee of Review of the Post Office (Carter Committee) from 1975-1977, and a member of the Dockland Joint Committee from 1978-1981, and a member of the IPPR Commission on Public Policy and British Business, from 1995 to 1997.
www.ffii.nova.es /Santander/datos_participante.asp?id_per=52&idioma=I   (200 words)

  
 HONDA - SCIENCE MINISTER TAKES A RIDE IN HONDA’S CLEAN MACHINE
Lord Sainsbury, the Science and Innovation Minister, was driven to the London launch event in Honda’s latest clean air machine, the Civic IMA, a petrol electric car of great usability and practicality.
Lord Sainsbury of Turville is Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Science and Innovation.
He was appointed in July 1998, with responsibility for the Office of Science and Technology, research councils and space matters.
www.hondauk-media.co.uk /protected/releases/2003/32401hon.htm   (655 words)

  
 CIW - News 991110
David Sainsbury (Lord Sainsbury of Turville), executive chairman and largest shareholder of J. Sainsbury PLC.
He serves as trustee of the Social Market Foundation, the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, and several other Sainsbury family grant-making charities.
Notably, Stone participated in the establishment, in 1987, of the Sainsbury Laboratoryfor Plant Molecular Pathology in Norwich.
www.carnegieinstitution.org /news_971215.html   (386 words)

  
 sainsbury   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Department of Trade and Industry - About the Department - Lord Sainsbury was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Science and - David Sainsbury became Lord Sainsbury of Turville in October 1997.
Drubbing Peter to pox Paul Yet Lord Sainsbury opposed that mandate purely on the basis of arguments against what was not being mandated.
Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health (Mental Health Topics) www.scmh.org.uk/8025694D00337EF1/vWeb/fsCPIR4PDJ8Q - 2k - Cached - Similar pages Department of Trade and Industry - About the Department -Lord Sainsbury was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Science and - David Sainsbury became Lord Sainsbury of Turville in October 1997.
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