Question to the Scotland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, 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.

My Department has one Non-Departmental Public Body, the Boundary Commission for Scotland. I have made the following appointments to this body in the last two years.