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Recommendation 19
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Paragraph: 112
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The Government must make more timely appointments to regulators’ boards.
Recommendation
The Government must make more timely appointments to regulators’ boards. In its response to this report, the Government should set out why it believes these delays are taking place and what actions it intends to take to rectify the situation.
Paragraph Reference:
112
Government Response
Position Not Stated
HM Government · verbatim extract
Position Not Stated
22. Response to HoL recommendation 8: Timeliness of appointments is an issue that was also referenced in the recent National Audit Office report on Non-Executive Director appointments and the subsequent Public Accounts Committee Select Committee hearing on 18 March. As the National Audit Office recognised, the online public appointments application service, rolled out in April 2023, is now providing management information to inform improvements to the process. We are actively monitoring the performance of departments across timeliness, candidate care, regional diversity and the quality of their data on the system. We are developing innovative ways to aid and speed up existing processes, including by largely automating some of the standard process steps. Ministers, and in particular Baroness Neville-Rolfe, are driving this work, given the importance they attach to the smooth and swift functioning of the public appointments system. 23. HoL
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