Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many non-executive directors of her Department who were in post before May 2015 have since left the Department's board; what the names and length of tenure of such directors were; and how many and what non-executive director appointments she has made since May 2010.

One non-executive board member has left the Department’s board since May 2015: My Noble Friend the Lord O’Neill of Gatley was a non-executive board member for one year and eight months and resigned on his appointment as Commercial Secretary to the Treasury. Sir Theodore Agnew resigned from the Department’s board in March 2015 after four years and eight months in post.

My Rt Hon Friend, the Member for Loughborough Nicky Morgan, appointed Marion Plant OBE as non-executive board member for the Department for Education in January 2015.