Question follow-through · 84670

Equality and Human Rights Commission: Public Appointments

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the Answer of 3 July 2025 to Question 62348 on EHRC: Public Appointments, what interests of regulated appointees by the Governance Code on Public Appointments are required to be published.

answeredWomen and Equalities

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Answering body
Women and Equalities
Tabled
23 Oct 2025
Target answer date
27 Oct 2025
Answer
3 Nov 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 23 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the Answer of 3 July 2025 to Question 62348 on EHRC: Public Appointments, what interests of regulated appointees by the Governance Code on Public Appointments are required to be published.

  2. 27 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 3 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    Section 9.1 of the Governance Code for Public Appointments states “candidates must be asked to declare potential conflicts of interest in their application.”. The EHRC publishes the declarations of interests of its Chair and Commissioners on their website...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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