Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 21 May 2018 to Question 144926 on Social Mobility Commission: Public Appointments, if he will publish the (a) principal places of residence and (b) main employment and occupational sectors declared by applicants for Chair of the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission.

We received 21 applications for the role of Chair of the Social Mobility Commission. Of those, 20 completed diversity monitoring forms. A breakdown by principal places of residence and main employment and occupational sectors are set out below:

To protect personal information we have not provided more detailed geographic information on the candidates’ place of residence.