BBC: Northern Ireland
(asked on 21st February 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the timetable for filling the vacant position of BBC Member for Northern Ireland to the BBC Board.
Answered by
Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
The process to appoint a new Northern Ireland Member to the board of the BBC will be a fair and open competition, run in accordance with the Governance Code on Public Appointments.
The role has been vacant since the Board was formed in 2017. It was not possible to make an appointment to the board at that time due to the dissolution of the Northern Ireland Executive. A process to appoint a Northern Ireland Member was run in 2021, but Ministers decided to restart the process due to an insufficiently diverse and broad longlist. The process will launch this month.