PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Department of Health: Directors (22 June 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, 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 Department’s board since May 2015.

Since May 2010 the following Non-Executive Directors have been appointed: Catherine Bell, Chris Pilling, David Heymann, Gerry Murphy, Mike Wheeler and Peter Sands.

Details of their appointment (including dates of appointments) can be found in the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts each year which are available at the following links:

Annual Report and accounts 2010-11

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/215448/dh_130154.pdf -

Annual Report and accounts 2011-12

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/212977/23735_HC-66-DoH.pdf

Annual Report and accounts 2012-13

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/229996/Annual_Report.pdf

Annual Report and accounts 2013-14

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/335166/DH_annual_accounts_2013-14.pdf

Details of how Non-Executive appointments are made can be found in the Code of Practice on Corporate Governance in Central Government Departments.

Answered by:
Jane Ellison (Conservative)
30 June 2015