Department of Education: Directors

(asked on 30th June 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when his Department’s current non-executive directors were appointed; what oversight officials had 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
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 5th July 2021

The Department follows the principles set out in the Cabinet Office/HM Treasury ‘Corporate governance in central government departments: code of good practice’, which is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/corporate-governance-code-for-central-government-departments-2017.

The Department’s current non-executive directors are listed below with their dates of appointment:

  • Baroness Ruby McGregor-Smith, appointed December 2015.
  • Ian Ferguson, appointed January 2016.
  • Richard Pennycook, appointed October 2017.
  • Irene Lucas, appointed November 2018.
  • Toby Peyton-Jones, appointed November 2018.
  • Nick Timothy, appointed March 2020.

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