Question follow-through · 22190
Industrial Strategy Advisory Council: Public Appointments
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to include appointments to the Industrial Strategy Advisory Council in the Public Bodies Order in Council; and whether the chair appointment will be classified as a significant appoint
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 6 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 14 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to include appointments to the Industrial Strategy Advisory Council in the Public Bodies Order in Council; and whether the chair appointment will be classified as a significant appoint
8 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Industrial Strategy Advisory Council (ISAC) is an independent, non-statutory, expert committee and as such these appointments are not in scope for addition to the Order in Council or Significant Appointments under Cabinet Office guidance. We have comm...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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