Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to interview applicants to the board of the Social Mobility Commission.
The recruitment of a new Chair of the Social Mobility Commission is underway and applications closed on 30 March. Interviews are intended to take place in early May. This is a public appointment, and the process, including the interviews, will be completed following the procedures set out in the Public Appointments guidance. We plan to begin the recruitment process for new Commissioners as soon as possible after the new Chair has been appointed, to allow him or her to be involved in the process.