Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, other than special advisers if her Department has appointed anyone from outside the civil service since July 2024.

Since July 2024, 146 public appointments have been made to DCMS public bodies. All have been announced publicly on the gov.uk website.

In the same time period, 18 direct ministerial appointments have been made, which have been publicly announced, including on gov.uk and the Cabinet Office’s direct ministerial appointments website. There were an additional 25 joint unregulated ministerial appointments made in January 2025 by the Secretary of State for DCMS and the Foreign Secretary.