Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) women and (b) men her Department has appointed to each of her Department's non-Departmental Public Bodies in each of the last five years.

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.

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.