Freedom of Expression: Public Appointments

(asked on 22nd June 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the process of appointing the Director of Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom will be anonymised.


Answered by
Michelle Donelan Portrait
Michelle Donelan
Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
This question was answered on 1st July 2022

The Director of Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom is not a post listed in the Public Appointments Order in Council, but we have committed that the recruitment process will be done in accordance with the public appointments process.

The Governance Code on Public Appointments does not require data to be anonymised at any stage of the appointments process. It does require the process to be open, transparent and conducted with integrity. It also requires that public appointments should reflect the diversity of the society in which we live.

The scrutiny of candidates’ CVs allows for the completion of due diligence and supports a robust process. Therefore, the process of making this appointment will not be anonymised.

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