Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, 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 Commissioner for Public Appointments completes and publishes an annual data survey of all new appointments and reappointments made to boards of public bodies by Government, including the overall gender diversity.

Data on the gender diversity of new non-executive appointees to public boards for 2012 to 2015 is published at the following address: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/diversity-in-public-appointments

Information on the gender of new public appointees in 2016-17 is available in the 'Public Appointments Diversity Action Plan' which was published in December 2017 and can be found at the following address: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/public-appointments-diversity-action-plan