PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
National Lottery: Public Appointments (9 February 2022)

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will publish the names of the members of the Advisory Assessment Panel for the appointment of the Chair of the National Lottery Fund.

Asked by:
Fleur Anderson (Labour)

The appointment of the Chair of the National Lottery Community Fund is made by the Secretary of State. The appointment is made in accordance with the Governance Code for Public Appointments, which is regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments.

Membership of the Advisory Assessment Panel has been publicly available since the campaign launched in August 2020 at https://publicappointments.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/. The Panel for this campaign was chaired by Sam Lister, Director General for Strategy and Operations at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. He was joined by Senior Independent Panel Member Fionnuala Jay-O'Boyle and Emma Boggis, Vice-Chair of the National Lottery Community Fund.

Answered by:
Nigel Huddleston (Conservative)
21 February 2022