Question follow-through · 3670

Departmental Boards: Members and Peers

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the Government's policy is on appointing (a) sitting hon. Members and (b) Peers as non-executive board members of Departments.

answeredCabinet Office

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Answering body: Cabinet Office
Tabled: 30 Aug 2024
Target answer date: 3 Sept 2024
Answer: 11 Sept 2024 · 12 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

30 Aug 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the Government's policy is on appointing (a) sitting hon. Members and (b) Peers as non-executive board members of Departments.
3 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Sept 2024
Answer published
Appointments of non-executive directors to departmental boards are regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments and are made in compliance with the Governance Code on Public Appointments. Board members are also bound by the Code of Conduct for Bo...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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