Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Livermore on 23 October (HL1495), which specific Treasury Minister requested to officials that Ian Corfield be appointed 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.