Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, 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.

Departments follow the principles set out in Cabinet Office/HM Treasury ‘Corporate governance in central government departments: code of good practice’.

The Lead Non-Executive Director, Ann Cairns, was appointed in January 2021: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ann-cairns-appointed-lead-non-executive-board-member-at-beis.

Non-Executive Board Members Vikas Shah and Stephen Hill were appointed in May 2021: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/vikas-shah-and-stephen-hill-appointed-to-beis-board.