Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury on 16 October (HC7750), whether the Treasury Permanent Secretary was informed of the pre-election entry in the current Chancellor's Register of Member's Interests and the fact of the associated donation from Mr Corfield, when the Ministerial request was made to appoint Ian Corfield as a civil servant.

Ian Corfield was appointed on a short-term basis to carry out urgent work in support of the government’s International Investment Summit in October. A full recruitment process could not have been completed in the time available. The donation was included in the Chancellor’s Register of Member’s Interests. He has since been appointed, unpaid, as a direct ministerial appointment.