Exceptional Appointments made without a competition

There is a requirement in the Governance Code for Ministers to make the decision public alongside their reasons for doing so. A list of exceptional appointments made without a competition is set out below along with the Commissioner’s observations. The Commissioner updates this list quarterly, following announcements of the exceptional appointments by government.

2020/21

Date Approved	Department	Body	Role	Name	Appointment Length	Reason	Correspondence between Commissioner and government	Announcement
2 September 2020	WG	Public Health Wales	member	Mohammed Mehmet	1 year 6 months	Following failed competition	Email (PDF, 1 page, 59 KB)
1 September 2020	BEIS	Competitions and Markets Authority	Chair	Jonathan Scott	1 year	To allow for competition	Letter (PDF, 1 page, 127 KB)
18 August 2020	WG	Welsh Revenue Authority	member	Rheon Tomos	1 year	For quoracy, to allow for competition	Email (PDF, 1 page, 59 KB)
18 August 2020	WG	Welsh Revenue Authority	member	Mary Champion	1 year	For quoracy, to allow for competition	Email (PDF, 1 page, 59 KB)
13 August 2020	MHCLG	Building Regulation Advisory Committee	Member	Julia Evans	2 years 11 months	To align with end of Chair and body after legislation subsume powers to a new body	Letter (PDF, 2 pages, 115 KB)
13 August 2020	MHCLG	Building Regulation Advisory Committee	Member	Gavin Dunn	2 years 11 months	To align with end of Chair and body after legislation subsume powers to a new body	Letter (PDF, 2 pages, 115 KB)
13 August 2020	MHCLG	Building Regulation Advisory Committee	Member	Anthony Burd	2 years 11 months	To align with end of Chair and body after legislation subsume powers to a new body	Letter (PDF, 2 pages, 115 KB)
13 August 2020	MHCLG	Building Regulation Advisory Committee	Chair	Hywel Davies	2 years 8 months	To sit as chair after departure of previous chair, whilst future of body is agreed in legislation	Letter (PDF, 2 pages, 115 KB)
13 August 2020	MHCLG	Regulator of Social Housing	Chair	Simon Dow	9 months	To allow for a competition to finish for a new Chair	Letter (PDF, 2 pages, 115 KB)
30 July 2020	BEIS	Financial Reporting Council	Chair	Keith Skeoch	6 months	To allow for competition after resignation of previous chair	Letter (PDF, 1 page, 98 KB)	FRC announcement
28 July 2020	HO	Technical Advisory Board	Member	Alex Leadbeater	1 year	To make body quorum and allow for competition to begin for substantive member	Email (PDF, 1 page, 59 KB)
7 July 2020	DFT	HS2	Member	Tom Harris	9 months	For specialist skills; to allow for competition	Letter (PDF, 2 pages, 142 KB)
7 July 2020	DFT	HS2	member	Ian King	3 years	For direct government shareholder represenation	Letter (PDF, 2 pages, 142 KB)
7 July 2020	DEFRA	Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board	member	Richard Soffee	9 months	To allow for competition	Letter (PDF, 1 page, 133 KB)
6 July 2020	Welsh Government	Industry Wales	Chair	Keith Ridgway	18 months	Role being split; to provide stability during this time	Email (PDF, 1 page, 60 KB)
3 July 2020	DFE	Social Mobility Commission	Chair	Sandra Wallace Steven Cooper	9 months	To allow for competition	Letter (PDF, 1 page, 106 KB)	GOV.UK announcement
26 June 2020	MOD	Oil and Pipelines Agency (OPA)	Chair	Mark Eames	1 year	To allow for competition post Covid restrictions, and appoint based review advice	Letter (PDF, 1 page, 85 KB)	GOV.UK announcement
18 June 2020	Cabinet Office	EHRC	Chair	Caroline Waters	6 months	To allow for competition and pre-appointment scrutiny	Letter (PDF, 1 page, 260KB)	Gov.uk announcement
18 June 2020	Cabinet Office	EHRC	Member	Susan Johnson	6 months	To allow for competition and pre-appointment scrutiny	Letter (PDF, 1 page, 260 KB)	Gov.uk announcement
2 June 2020	MOJ	CAFCASS	Chair	Sally Cheshire	9 months (Extension)	To allow for competition	Email (PDF, 1 page, 58 KB)	Cafcass announcement
18 May 2020	DHSC	NHS Digital	Chair	Laura Wade-Gery	7 months (Extension)	To allow for competition after internal review	Email (PDF, 1 page, 58 KB)	Gov.uk announcement
7 May 2020	WG	Swansea Bay University Health Board	Member	Martyn Waygood	1 year (Extension)	To allow for competition for vice-chair	Email (PDF, 1 page, 60 KB)	Welsh Government announcement
23 April 2020	BEIS	Small Business Commissioner	Chair	Philip King	6 months (Extension)	To allow for competition	Letter (PDF, 1 page, 103 KB)	Gov.uk announcement
23 April 2020	BEIS	Regulatory Policy Committee	Chair	Stephen Gibson	9 months	To allow for competition after immediate resignation of previous chair	Letter (PDF, 1 page, 102 KB)	Gov.uk announcement
16 April 2020	Home Office	Independent Family Returns Panel	Chair	Helen Chamberlain	6 months	To allow for competition	Email (PDF, 1 page, 59 KB)	Gov.uk announcement
7 April 2020	DWP	The Pensions Ombudsman	Member	Claire Ryan	1 year	Nature of the role is changing	Letter (PDF, 2 pages, 102 KB)	Gov.uk announcement

2019/20

Date Approved	Department	Body	Role	Name	Appointment Length	Reason	Correspondence between Commissioner and government
20 March 2020	DCMS	Visit England Advisory Board	Chair	Fiona Pollard	3 months	To allow for competition	Email (PDF, 1 page, 59 KB
19 March 2020	WG	National Library of Wales	Chair	Meri Huws	1 year	To allow for competition	Email (PDF, 1 page, 58 KB)
16 March 2020	DfE	Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel	Chair	Karen Manners	9 months	To allow for competition	Letter (PDF, 1 page, 68 KB)
13 March 2020	MOD	Scientific Advisory Committee on the Medical Implications of Less-Lethal Weapons (SACMILL)	Chair	Classified	2 years	To allow for competition to take place	Letter (PDF, 1 page, 634 KB)
5 March 2020	DHSC	NICE	Chair	Tim Irish	2 months extension	To allow for competition to begin	Email (PDF, 1 page, 57 KB)
5 March 2020	NHSI	Pennine Acute Hospital Trust	Member	Stephen Michael	12 months	Trust is being dissolved and requires members during this time	Email (PDF, 1 page, 57 KB)
2 March 2020	Home Office	Migration Advisory Committee	Chair	Brian Bell	6 months	To allow for competition to take place	Email (PDF, 1 page, 58 KB)
19 February 2020	DfT	East West Railway Company	Chair	Rob Brighouse	6 months extension	To allow for competition to take place	Letter (PDF, 1 page, 63 KB)
13 February 2020	DCMS	Committee for the National Lottery Community Fund	Chair	Sandra McNamee	9 months	To replace member, need NI representation	Email (PDF, 1 page, 58 KB)
12 February 2020	MOJ	CAFCASS	Chair	Sally Cheshire	6 months	To allow for competition to take place	Email (PDF, 1 page, 57 KB)
11 February 2020	Home Office	College of Policing	Chair	Christine Elliot	6 months	To allow for competition to take place	Email (PDF, 1 page, 57 KB)
5 February 2020	MOD	The South Eastern (SE) Veteran Advisory and Pensions Committee	Chair	David Anderson	6 months	To allow for competition to take place	Email (PDF, 1 page, 291 KB)
3 February 2020	DFE	Student Loans Company	Chair	Andrew Wathey	12 months	To allow competition initially delayed by purdah to take place	Email (PDF, 1 page, 290 KB)
14 January 2020	BEIS	Small Business Commissioner	Commissioner	Philip King	6 months	Interim whilst a competition can be held to find a substantive chair	Letter (PDF, 1 page, 57 KB)
11 December 2019	DHSC	National Institute for Health and Care Excellence	Chair	Tim Irish	3 months	To allow for competition	Email (PDF, 1 page, 18 KB)
9 December 2019	DEFRA	Covent Garden Market Authority	Member	Victoria Wilson	9 months	To support existing members while competition to appoint substantive members is run	Letter (PDF, 1 page, 340 KB)
25 November 2019	WG	Local Democracy and Boundary Commission for Wales	Chair	Debbie Williams	2 years	Following failed competition	Letter (PDF, 1 page 42 KB
13 November 2019	WG	Swansea Bay University Health Board	Chair	Emma Woollett	1 month extension	To allow for competition	Email (PDF, 1 page, 185 KB)
13 November 2019	DCMS	S4C	Chair	Hugh Hesketh-Evans	6 months	To allow competition to conclude	Letter (PDF, 1 page, 61 KB)
12 November 2019	DCMS	National Lottery Heritage Fund	Chair	René Olivieri	6 months	Following resignation of existing Chair	Letter (PDF, 1 page, 49 KB)
12 November 2019	DCMS	National Lottery Community Fund	Chair	Tony Burton	12 months	Following failed competition	Letter (PDF, 1 page, 47 KB)
22 October 2019	MHCLG	Homes England	Chair	Simon Dudley	9 months	Following resignation of existing Chair	Letter (PDF, 1 page, 61 KB)
20 September 2019 and 13 October 2019	WG	National Library Wales	President	Meri Huws	6 months	To allow for competition following standing down of existing President due to ill health	Email (PDF, 1 page, 181 KB)
18 September 2019	WG	Cardiff and Vale University Health Board	Vice-Chair	Michael Imperato	10 months	To support existing interim Chair while competition to appoint substantive Chair is run	Email (PDF, 1 page, 2017 KB)
17 September 2019	MOJ	Judicial Pension Board	Member	Russell Agius	2 year reappointment	To allow for competition for highly specialist role	Email (PDF, 1 page, 184 KB)
16 September 2019	DHSC	NHS England	Member	Ara Darzi	2 years	To ensure board remains quorate	Email (PDF, 1 page, 185 KB)
09 September 2019	NHSI	Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust	Member	Aruna Mehta	3 months	To provide stability to new Chair of the board	Email (PDF, 1 page, 204 KB)
29 August 2019	MHCLG	Regulator of Social Housing	Chair	Simon Dow	12 months	Following failed competition
23 August 2019	DWP	Social Security Advisory Committee	Chair	Liz Sayce	12 months	Following the resignation of the existing Chair	Email (PDF, 1 page, 195 KB)
14 August 2019	WG	Local Democracy and Boundary Commission for Wales	Chair	Ceri Stradling	3 months	While long term interim Chair is identified	Letter (PDF, 1 page, 84 KB)
06 August 2019	WG	Swansea Bay University Health Board	Vice-Chair	Martyn Waygood	8 months	To allow for competition	Letter (PDF, 1 page, 541 KB)
31 July 2019	WG	Cardiff and Vale University Health Board	Chair	Charles Janczewski	12 months	To allow for competition	Letter (PDF, 1 page, 540 KB)
24 July 2019	DWP	The Pensions Ombudsman	Chair	Caroline Rookes	12 months	To allow board to be formed	Letter (PDF, 1 page, 38 KB)
22 July 2019	WG	Hywel Dda University Health Board	Vice-Chair	Paul Newman	1 month extension	Newly appointed Chair unable to take up post	Letter (PD, ` page 49 KB)
22 July 2019	WG	Hywel Dda University Health Board	Chair	Judith Hardisty	1 month extension	Newly appointed Chair unable to take up post	Letter (PDF, 1 page, 49 KB)
22 July 2019	MOD	Nuclear Defence Safety Committee	Chair	Classified	Classified	Classified	Classified
08 July 2019	BEIS	Labour Market Enforcement	Director	Matthew Taylor	12 months	To prevent vacancy on board	Letter (PD, 1 page, 509 KB)
11 June 2019	WG	Swansea Bay Local University Health Board	Chair	Emma Woollett	6 months	To allow for competition	Email (PDF, 1 page, 193 KB)
31 May 2019	WG	Hywel DDA University Health Board	Chair	Judith Hardisty	2 month extension	Competition delayed	Email (PDF, 1 Page, 182 KB)
31 May 2019	WG	Hywel DDA University Health Board	Vice-Chair	Paul Newman	2 month extension	Competition delayed	Email (PDF, 1 page, 182 KB)
08 April 2019	WG	Hywel DDA University Health Board	Vice-Chair	Paul Newman	2 months	To allow for competition	Letter (PDF, 1 page, 46 KB)

2018/19

Date Approved	Department	Body	Role	Name	Appointment Length	Reason	Correspondence between Commissioner and government
05 March 2019	WG	Hywel DDA University Health Board	Chair	Judith Hardisty	3 months	To allow for competiton	Letter
04 March 2019	Home Office	Disclosure and Barring Service	Member	David Banks	12 months	To allow for competition	Email
27 February 2019	DCMS	Royal Armouries	Chair	Hemant Patel	6 month extension	To allow for competition	Email
26 February 2019	NHSI	Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust	NED	Tim Crowley	12 months	While Trust is dissolved	Email
26 February 2019	NHSI	Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust	NED	Hamish Stedman	12 months	While Trust is dissolved	Email
26 February 2019	BEIS	Innovate UK	Chair	Ian Campbell	9 month extension	To allow for competition	Email
19 February 2019	NHSI	Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust	NED	John Willis	2 month extension	To sign off annual report and accounts	Email
19 February 2019	NHSI	Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust	Chair	Jim Potter	12 months	While Trust is dissolved	Email
15 February 2019	DHSC	Human Tissue Authority	Chair	Bill Horne	5 month extension	To allow for competition	Email
17 January 2019	WG	Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales	Chair	Catherine Hardman	3 months	To allow for competition	Letter
10 January 2019	DHSC	Human Tissue Authority	Chair	Bill Horne	3 months	Following the resignation of the existing Chair	Email
23 November 2018	BEIS	Science and Technology Facilities Council	Chair	John Loughead	12 months	While organisation is merged	Email
19 November 2018	MHCLG	Building Regulations Advisory Committee	Chair	Emma Clancy	18 months	Provide stability to board	Letter
16 October 2018	DCMS	Royal Armouries	Chair	Hemant Patel	12 months	While board closes down	Letter
05 October 2018	BEIS	Science and Technology Facilities Council	Member	Sheila Rowen	12 months	While board closes down	Letter
05 October 2018	BEIS	Science and Technology Facilities Council	Member	Phillipa Foster	12 months	While board closes down	Letter
05 October 2018	BEIS	Medical Research Council	Member	Jill Pell	12 months	While board closes down	Letter
05 October 2018	BEIS	Medical Research Council	Member	Munir Pirmohamed	12 months	While board closes down	Letter
05 October 2018	BEIS	Medical Research Council	Member	Eleanor Riley	12 months	While board closes down	Letter
05 October 2018	BEIS	Medical Research Council	Member	Graham Spittle	12 months	While board closes down	Letter
05 October 2018	BEIS	Science and Technology Facilities Council	Member	Frances Saunders	12 months	While board closes down	Letter
03 October 2018	WG	Natural Resources Wales	Chair	David Henshaw	12 months	Following failed competition	Letter
31 August 2018	MOJ	Prison Service Pay Review Body	Chair	Jerry Cope	12 months	Following failed competition	Letter
14 August 2018	WG	Public Health Wales	NED	Stephen Palmer	6 months	Following failed competition	Letter
14 August 2018	WG	Public Health Wales	NED	Dyfed Edwards	6 months	Following failed competition	Letter
27 July 2018	WG	Welsh Ambulance Service Trust	NED	Martin Turner	12 months	To allow for competition	Letter
17 July 2018	DFT	East West Railway Company	Chair	Rob Brighouse	12 months	To allow board to be established	Letter
13 July 2018	DWP	Health and Safety Executive	Member	Paul Kenny	12 months	Following failed competition	Letter
06 July 2018	MOJ	Youth Justice Board	Chair	Charlie Taylor	12 months	Board undergoing substantial change	Email
06 July 2018	MHCLG	Housing Ombudsman Service	Housing Ombudsman	Andrea Keenoy	12 months	Following failed competition	Letter
22 June 2018	DFE	Office for Students	Member	Ruth Carlson	3 months extension	To allow for competition	Letter
20 June 2018	DFE	Office for Students	Statutory Reviewer	Geraint Jones	3 months	To allow for competition	Letter
08 June 2018	DFT	HS2 Ltd Board	NED	Ed Smith	12 months	Following failed competition	Letter
09 May 2018	WG	Visit Britain	Welsh Representative	Jason Thomas	9 months	To allow for competition	Letter
08 May 2018	NHS Improvement	University Hospitals North Midlands Trust	NED	Jean Challiner	2 years	Provide stability to board	Email
08 May 2018	BEIS	Nuclear Decommission Authority	NED	Laurie Haynes	12 months	To allow for competition	Email
04 May 2018	NHS Improvement	Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust	Chair	David Nicholson	12 months	Provide stability to board	Email

2017/18

4 January 2018
Office of Road and Rail: Stephen Glaister
Appointment without Competition Ref 248 (PDF, 2 pages, 103 KB)

8 November 2017
North Bristol NHS Trust: Frank Collins
Appointment without Competition Ref 232 (PDF, 2 pages, 108 KB)

8 November 2017
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust: Aruna Metha
Appointment without Competition Ref 231 (PDF, 2 pages, 114 KB)

28 September 2017
Sport Wales: Lawrence Conway CB (further extension)
Appointment without Competition Ref 175 (PDF, 2 pages, 81 KB)

10 September 2017
Seafish: Brian Young
Appointment without Competition Ref 229 (PDF, 2 pages, 101 KB)

1 September 2017
Youth Justice Board: Bryan Tytherleigh
Appointment without Competition Ref 225 (PDF, 2 pages, 103KB)

19 July 2017
NHS Improvement: Richard Douglas
Appointment without Competition Ref 217 (PDF, 1 page, 97 KB)

30 April 2017
Liverpool Community Health Trust: Robert Beardall
Appointment without Competition Ref 234 (PDF, 2 pages, 105 KB)

28 April 2017
Sport Wales: Julia Longville
Appointment without Competition Ref 215 (PDF, 2 pages, 96 KB)

21 April 2017
Liverpool Community Health Trust: Sir David Henshaw, Dame Jo Williams, Steve Igoe, Anita Marsland
Appointment without Competition Refs 194, 196-198 (PDF, 3 pages, 113KB)

21 April 2017
Youth Justice Board: Alan Wood
Appointment without competition – Ref 200 (PDF, 2 pages, 95 KB)

21 April 2017
Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust: Jim Potter
Appointment without Competition Ref 186 (PDF)

21 April 2017
National Nuclear Laboratory: Claire Flint
Appointment without competition Ref 178 (PDF)

21 April 2017
OFCOM: Nick Pollard
Appointment without competition Ref 180 (PDF)

21 April 2017
Chair of UK Sport: Lis Astall
Appointment without competition Ref 189 (PDF)

21 April 2017
Sianel Pedwar Cymru (S4C): Elan Closs Stephens
Appointment without competition Ref 195 (PDF)

7 April 2017
Hybu Cig Cymru (HCC) Kevin Roberts
Appointment without competition Ref 183 (PDF)

23 March 2017
Advisory Panel on Substance Misuse: Richard Ives
Appointment without competition Ref 179 (PDF)

16 March 2017
Pensions Advisory Service: Ann Harris
Appointment without competition Ref 173 (PDF)

24 February 2017
The Youth Justice Board for England & Wales: Mr Charlie Taylor
Appointment without competition Ref 174 (PDF)

16 February 2017
North Middlesex University Hospitals NHS Trust: Mr Dusty Amroliwala OBE
Appointment without Competition Ref 171 (PDF)

14 February 2017
Sports Wales: Mr Lawrence Conway CB
Appointment without competition Ref 175 (PDF)