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Non-executive director appointments

Status: Closed Opened: 10 Jan 2024 Closed: 28 May 2024 11 recommendations 12 conclusions 1 report

Non-executive directors (NEDs) serve on the boards of Government departments and arm’s-length bodies (ALBs). Their role is to provide challenge and expert advice grounded in experience to management boards and Government ministers. The Committee’s 2021 report on Government’s delivery through arm’s-length bodies noted controversy around the appointment of NEDs to departmental boards as raising questions …

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Reports

1 report
Title HC No. Published Items Response
Thirtieth Report - Non-executive appointments HC 460 8 May 2024 23 Responded

Recommendations & Conclusions

1 item
13 Recommendation Thirtieth Report - Non-executive appoin… Accepted in Part

No central list or mandatory system use currently exists for unregulated public appointments.

The Cabinet Office told us that it does not have a central list of how many unregulated appointments there are.20 It said that it does not currently have central oversight of any aspect on unregulated appointments and it is not mandatory for departments to put unregulated appointments on to its …

Government response. The Cabinet Office will write to departments to encourage wider use of the applicant tracking system for unregulated appointments by the end of December 2024, but stops short of mandating it due to resource and capacity considerations.
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Oral evidence sessions

1 session
Date Witnesses
18 Mar 2024 Elizabeth Passey · Rural Payments Agency, Michael Jary · Cabinet Office, Simon Madden · NHSX, Sir Alex Chisholm · Cabinet Office View ↗

Correspondence

3 letters
DateDirectionTitle
16 Apr 2024 — Correspondence from Simon Madden, Director of Propriety & Ethics, Cabinet Offic…
15 Apr 2024 — Correspondence from Simon Madden, Director of Propriety & Ethics, Cabinet Offic…
15 Apr 2024 — Joint correspondence from Sir Alex Chisholm, Civil Service Chief Operating Offi…