Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, 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 Secretary of State for Health and Social Care appoints Chairs and other non-executive members to the Department’s national public bodies. The appointments are regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments who gathers and publishes diversity data.

The following table shows the number of public appointments, including new appointments and re-appointments, made to public bodies regulated by the Commissioner, and in each of the last five financial years. The figures do not include those who were appointed and chose not to declare their gender.

Declared gender of public appointments to the Department’s national public bodies by year