Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when his Department’s non-executive directors were appointed; what oversight did officials have of ministerial appointments of non-executive directors; and what assessment was made of their experience against the requirements for breadth and depth of experience set out in the Cabinet Office guidance on departmental boards of November 2014.
Departments follow the principles set out in Cabinet Office/HM Treasury ‘Corporate governance in central government departments: code of good practice.’
The Department for Transport’s current Non-Executive Directors (NED) are listed below with their appointment dates:
Ian King (Lead NED): Appointed on 1st November 2017
Tony Poulter: Appointed on 19th September 2016
Tracy Westall: Appointed on 1st November 2017
Richard Keys: Appointed on 1st December 2017
Dame Sarah Storey: Appointed on 1st April 2021
Ranjit Baxi: Appointed on 1st April 2021