Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, when her Department’s 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 Department’s current Non-Executive Board Members are as follows:
Dominic Johnson, Interim Lead Non-Executive Board Member (joined November 2020)
Douglas Carswell (joined November 2020)
Noel Harwerth (joined January 2017)
Dambisa Moyo (joined November 2020)
Sir Stephen O’Brien (joined June 2019)
The announcements of these Non-Executives’ appointments can be found below:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/liz-truss-announces-four-new-non-executive-board-members
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/sir-stephen-obrien-named-as-new-dit-board-member