Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) women and (b) men his Department has appointed to each of his Department's non-Departmental Public Bodies in each of the last five years.

The Cabinet Office has responsibility for nine NDPBs covering a range of advisory functions. Appointments to these bodies each year are few in number. The Commissioner for Public Appointments completes and publishes an annual data survey of all new appointments and reappointments made to boards of public bodies by Government including the overall gender diversity. https://publicappointmentscommissioner.independent.gov.uk/publications/annual-reports/

Data on the gender diversity of new non-executive appointees to public boards for 2012 to 2015 is published on Gov.uk https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/diversity-in-public-appointments. For the period 2015/16, 50% of new appointments to CO NDPBs were women. For the period of 2016/17 the number of appointments made would mean any statistic on gender diversity could lead to identification of individuals.