Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment has she made of the effectiveness of the scrutiny processes for public appointments within her Department.
The Department’s public appointments processes are run in accordance with the Governance Code for Public Appointments and are regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments. DCMS’s most significant appointments are also subject to a pre-appointment scrutiny hearing held by the DCMS Select Committee.