Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 28 November 2016 to Question 53795, what the (a) name, (b) job title and (c) responsibility is of each of the unpaid advisers currently based in the First World War Centenary and Ceremonials Directorate of her Department.

The only current unpaid advisers within the First World War Centenary and Ceremonials Directorate are the members of the Centenary Advisory Group, who provide strategic oversight and challenge to the WWI Centenary programme; monitors delivery and progress and ensures that objectives remain current and appropriate. The group is made up of the following:

• The Prime Minister’s Special Representative for the centenary of the First World War
• One author
• One academic
• Three former Chief's of Defence Staff
• Two historians
• One director general of a British charity
• Two MPs
• One former Chief of the General Staff
• One novelist
• One playwright
• Three peers
• One public relations and philanthropy expert
• One Dean
• One print media expert
• One former Defence Secretary
• One expert in leadership development and cultural change
• One history school teacher
• Special Representatives for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland