PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Directors (22 June 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many non-executive directors of his Department who were in post before May 2015 have since left the Department's board; what the names and length of tenure of such directors were; and how many and what non-executive director appointments he has made since May 2010.

Asked by:
Lucy Powell (Labour)

No non-executive directors have left the Foreign and Commonwealth Office since May 2015. Since May 2010, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has made three Board level non-executive director appointments, and renewed one contract. These were: 01/11/2011 Richard Lambert (Supervisory Board) 01/12/2011 (contract renewal) Rudy Markham (Supervisory Board, Management Board, Audit and Risk Committee) 01/03/2012 – 31/03/2015 Heather Rabbatts (Supervisory Board) 24/04/2012 Julia Bond (Supervisory Board, Management Board, Senior Appointments Board) In this period the Foreign and Commonwealth Office also recruited two non-executive members to its Audit and Risk Committee. These were: 16/03/2011 Stephen Hawker (Audit and Risk Committee) 16/03/2011 Ann Cormack (Audit and Risk Committee)
Answered by:
Mr Tobias Ellwood (Conservative)
29 June 2015