Social Mobility Commission: Public Appointments

(asked on 11th July 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when the original application process (a) opened and (b) closed for the position of Chair of the Social Mobility Commission; how many people applied for that position before the closure of the original application process; and whether that application process was extended.


Answered by
Nadhim Zahawi Portrait
Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 16th July 2018

The application process to recruit a Chair of the Social Mobility Commission opened on 5 February 2018 with an original closing date of 25 February 2018. The closing date was subsequently extended to 30 March 2018 to ensure that applications were received from a strong field of candidates. Six applications for the role were received before the closure of the original application process and fifteen were received after the extension to the deadline was made.

The process to appoint a Chair of the Social Mobility Commission was run in accordance of advice from the Cabinet Office and the Department for Education’s Public Appointments team, and it was fully in line with the Governance Code on Public Appointments.

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