Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many (a) women and (b) men his Department has appointed to each of its 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 on Gov.uk https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/diversity-in-public-appointments

Data for appointments, including reappointments, to the Department's non-Departmental Public Bodies since 2015 is as follows:

In advertising public appointments the Department utilises a range of recruitment websites that specifically target women. The Department is also considering other ways in which it can attract a more diverse candidate pool such as broader, more targeted advertising and even better use of existing stakeholder networks.