Letter to Education Select Committee
Thursday 11 January 2018
The Commissioner has today written to the Chair of the Education Select Committee, Robert Halfon MP, in relation to the recent Office for Students competition.
Thursday 11 January 2018
The Commissioner has today written to the Chair of the Education Select Committee, Robert Halfon MP, in relation to the recent Office for Students competition.
Tuesday 9 January 2018
Appointments to members of boards, as opposed to chairs, are largely self-regulated by departments subject to the Government’s Governance Code which I monitor as a regulator. What this means is that vacancies for posts are publicly advertised after the panel agrees a recruitment strategy with ministers, candidates apply and can also be suggested by ministers […]
Thursday 14 December 2017
I strongly welcome the Government’s new Diversity Action Plan for public appointments. It sets the right ambitions to ensure that public bodies are more representative of British society and set out some sensible practical steps to help us get there. As Commissioner for Public Appointments, I don’t appoint but will encourage greater diversity by highlighting […]
Thursday 14 December 2017
Everyone agrees about the desirability of the goals. The ‘how’ is what matters. The Cabinet Office’s ‘Public Appointments Diversity Action Plan’ offers both the right ambitions for broadening diversity and sets out some sensible practical steps for achieving them. The record of the past few years offers clear pointers. Considerable progress has been made in […]
Thursday 30 November 2017
As Commissioner for Public Appointments, one of my main- indeed enhanced- roles is as a champion of diversity. What does that mean? I don’t appoint anyone myself — that is done by, or on behalf, of ministers on the advice of panels chaired by civil servants alongside an independent member. My function is as a […]
Monday 13 November 2017
Following a recent round of meetings to discuss diversity in Public Appointments, the Commissioner has written a letter to all Permanent Secretaries. He has also written to the Committee on Standards in Public Life to update them on progress.
Wednesday 25 October 2017
The considerable progress made in recent years in the selection of women candidates to the roughly 2,000 appointments to public bodies ( now 45.5 per cent of the total) has only been partially matched amongst BAME candidates. In the last published figures, for 2016-17, just over 9 per cent of appointments and reappointments went to […]
Monday 16 October 2017
The Commissioner has written to Maria Miller MP on her re-election as Chair of the Women and Equalities Committee. His letter outlines the progress being made in relation to diversity in Public Appointments.
Wednesday 5 July 2017
Responsibility, and the credit, for this performance lie with Ministers and with departments who do the appointing. I don’t. My role is to report and to champion diversity, highlighting good practice and urging changes which will broaden the range of potential, and actual, appointees to the boards of public bodies. The statistics that I will […]
Tuesday 4 July 2017
The Commissioner for Public Appointments has today published his Annual Report and the Annual Survey of Ministerial Appointments and Reappointments for 2016-17. You can read the Commissioner’s press notice in relation to the above.