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Tony Caplin

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Anthony Lindsay Caplin (born 1951 in Southport, Lancashire), a son of Abram Caplin and Vera Doris Benjamin. He is a British company director and former chief operating officer of the United Kingdom's Conservative Party.

In 2009 it was suggested that he should be appointed a peer.[1]

He was appointed to the Public Works Loan Board by the Labour government in 2003 and was made chairman by Prime Minister David Cameron in July 2013. The board is responsible for lending money to local authorities for infrastructure projects and collecting the repayments. He resigned from this position in 2014 after it emerged he had failed to disclose being declared bankrupt in 2012. [2][3]

Former appointments

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Positions that Caplin has previously held include: [4]

References

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  1. ^ "Search for 100 Peers: Tony Caplin". Conservative Home. 17 January 2009. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
  2. ^ "Tony Caplin resigns as quango chairman". BBC News. 2014-04-20. Retrieved 2022-12-20.
  3. ^ "Quango chief bankruptcy: Tony Caplin resigns from Public Works Loans". The Independent. 2014-04-20. Retrieved 2022-12-20.
  4. ^ "Company Overview of William Clowes Ltd". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
  5. ^ "Former IEQ directors leave a path of debt in their wake". Business Credit Management UK. 10 September 2003. Retrieved 20 April 2014.