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

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Callanan on 21 June (HL866), whether they have asked Mike Ashley whether he had any involvement in the recruitment of Seema Jamil O’Neill from KPMG to the staff of the UK Accounting Standards Board while he was a member of that Board and a partner at KPMG; and if not, whether they will now do so.

As noted in my response for HL866 on 21 June, the UK Endorsement Board Secretariat provides an administrative role with no executive function so staff in the Secretariat should not be subject to parliamentary questions about their previous experience.