Ministers

(asked on 12th February 2015) - View Source

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what due diligence is carried out and by whom before ministerial appointments are made.


This question was answered on 25th February 2015

As was the case under previous administrations, ministerial appointments are a matter for the Prime Minister, in line with the Ministerial Code.

For those individuals upon whom the Prime Minister wishes to confer a life peerage, the independent House of Lords Appointments Commission vets nominations. For those individuals upon whom the Prime Minister wishes to confer a peerage in order that they might sit in the House of Lords to take up a ministerial role, the Commission consults the main regulatory authorities, including HMRC, before giving advice.

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