Office for Students: Appointments

Lord Campbell-Savours Excerpts

Tuesday 9th January 2018 Lords Chamber

[Viscount Younger of Leckie]

The challenge in making up the board is to have a broad range of skills and experiences from within the sector and beyond. I can say now, to reassure the noble Baroness, that the board is well represented with experience of higher education, with the vice-chancellor of the University of the West of England, a former vice-chancellor of the private university BPP, a bursar and fellow of New College, Oxford and the chair of a performance and theatre college. It is deliberately meant to be a broad church.

[Lord Campbell-Savours (Lab)]

My Lords, did a conversation take place between Boris Johnson and his brother, Jo Johnson, prior to this appointment?

[Viscount Younger of Leckie]

I certainly cannot answer that and I am not going to be drawn into it.