Organisation · GOV.UK transparency returns · James Palmer (Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough), Cllr Ian Bates (Cambridge County Council), Cllr Mark Shaw (Deputy Leader of Buckinghamshire County Council, Cabinet Member for Transportation and Chairman of the East West Rail Joint Delivery Board), Cllr James Jamieson (Leader of Central Bedfordshire Council), Rob Brighouse (Chair of East-West Rail Company)
James Palmer (Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough), Cllr Ian Bates (Cambridge County Council), Cllr Mark Shaw (Deputy Leader of Buckinghamshire County Council, Cabinet Member for Transportation and Chairman of the East West Rail Joint Delivery Board), Cllr James Jamieson (Leader of Central Bedfordshire Council), Rob Brighouse (Chair of East-West Rail Company)
- Identity
organisation:govuk:James Palmer (Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough), Cllr Ian Bates (Cambridge County Council), Cllr Mark Shaw (Deputy Leader of Buckinghamshire County Council, Cabinet Member for Transportation and Chairman of the East West Rail Joint Delivery Board), Cllr James Jamieson (Leader of Central Bedfordshire Council), Rob Brighouse (Chair of East-West Rail Company)— the GOV.UK transparency returns key, used as-is. No identity here is invented.- Graph built
- 5 September 2026
Names in the records
Each spelling a register uses for this entity, and the method that tied it here. A name is never the identity; a similar name is never a match.
| As published | Register | Tied by | Confidence | Rows |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Palmer (Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough), Cllr Ian Bates (Cambridge County Council), Cllr Mark Shaw (Deputy Leader of Buckinghamshire County Council, Cabinet Member for Transportation and Chairman of the East West Rail Joint Delivery Board), Cllr James Jamieson (Leader of Central Bedfordshire Council), Rob Brighouse (Chair of East-West Rail Company) | GOV.UK transparency returns | exact name within one register | 1.0 | 1 |
What the records establish
- James Palmer (Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough), Cllr Ian Bates (Cambridge County Council), Cllr Mark Shaw (Deputy Leader of Buckinghamshire County Council, Cabinet Member for Transportation and Chairman of the East West Rail Joint Delivery Board), Cllr James Jamieson (Leader of Central Bedfordshire Council), Rob Brighouse (Chair of East-West Rail Company): 1 record of "recorded meeting with a minister" on 7 August 2017.
| Relationship | With | Date | Amount | Detail | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| recorded meeting with a minister | Lord Grayling | 7 August 2017 | — | ministerial_meetings |
What this does not establish
The records above establish that James Palmer (Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough), Cllr Ian Bates (Cambridge County Council), Cllr Mark Shaw (Deputy Leader of Buckinghamshire County Council, Cabinet Member for Transportation and Chairman of the East West Rail Joint Delivery Board), Cllr James Jamieson (Leader of Central Bedfordshire Council), Rob Brighouse (Chair of East-West Rail Company) and each entity named appear together in an official register, in the relationship that register records, on the date it records. They do not establish why any donation was made, why any contract was awarded, whether any one record was known to the people behind another, or that any record caused another. No causal inference is made on this page, and nothing here is a finding of any kind against anyone. A reported donation is a lawful, reported transaction; a contract award is a published notice; a seat is a seat.
Derived from: ministerial_meetings. Each row above names the table and key it came from and links the official record where one exists. How the graph is built is described at the evidence graph.