Question follow-through · 1056
Building Digital UK: Public Appointments
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what his planned timetable is to appoint the chair of Building Digital UK.
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 22 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 24 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 30 Jul 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what his planned timetable is to appoint the chair of Building Digital UK.
24 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jul 2024
Answer published
Following the announcement of Simon Blagden’s resignation on 19 July 2024, the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology is working at pace to appoint an interim Chair of Building Digital UK. We will confirm in due course the timelines for the perma...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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