Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many (a) women and (b) men his Department has appointed to each of his Department's non-Departmental Public Bodies in each of the last five years.

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has 39 Partner Organisations. We submit our diversity data to the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments in their role to provide independent assurance that appointments by Ministers to the boards of public bodies are made in accordance with the Government’s Principles of Public Appointments and Governance Code.

BEIS was established in July 2016. Therefore we do not hold comparable data for previous years.

[1] Note – data for 3 periods only as the data starts after the introduction of BEIS.