Department for Transport: Directors

(asked on 29th June 2021) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Chris Heaton-Harris Portrait
Chris Heaton-Harris
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
This question was answered on 5th July 2021

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

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