Public Appointments: Females
(asked on 12th December 2016) - View Source
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of public appointments were women from (a) 1 January to 12 July 2016 and (b) 13 July 2016 to date.
This question was answered on 15th December 2016
Statistics on public appointments are published annually by the Commissioner for Public Appointments.
Data published in July 2016 shows that for the financial year 2015/16 a 48.2% of new public appointments were made to women, higher than at any point in the last decade. Data for the financial year 2016/17 will be published by the Commissioner next summer.