Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) names and (b) previous occupations are of the non-executive member of the Home Office Board.

Sue Langley, OBE and Alan Brown are the non-executive members of the Home Office Board.

Sue Langley is currently the CEO of the Government's UK Financial Services Investment Organisation. She is a Non Executive Director for UKAR (Northern Rock Asset Management and Bradford and Bingley) and Chairman of the Remuneration Committee.

Previously she was Director of Market Development and a member of the Executive Team for Lloyd's of London, a Director of Lloyd’s Asia and Chairman of Lloyd’s Japan. Prior to this Sue was Chief Operating Officer and a member of the executive team for the Hiscox Group, holding various board positions. She joined Hiscox from PriceWaterhouseCoopers where she was a Principal Consultant and worked with a range of FTSE 100 companies. Sue is a representative on the Women's Business Council. She is a Vice President of the Insurance Institute of London.

Alan Brown is currently Chief Executive Officer at ASCO – an international oilfield support services company and a global provider of outsourced logistics services to the oil and gas industry. He is a non- executive director of Intertek, the FTSE 100-listed testing inspection and certification business.

Previously, Alan was Chief Executive Officer of Rentokil Initial plc for five years until October 2013. Alan spent 25 years at Unilever plc, in various roles in the UK and Europe and then CEO of Unilever’s operations in Taiwan and then China. Following this, Alan returned to the UK as Chief Financial Officer at Imperial Chemical Industries plc.