Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will publish the list of (a) people and (b) organisations consulted during the appointment process for the Chair of the Independent Football Regulator.

The assessment criteria and process for the appointment of the Chair was advertised on the government appointments website.

The Chair is appointed through a fair and open competition, run under the publicly available Governance Code on Public Appointments.

In addition, the preferred Chair appointment is subject to pre-appointment scrutiny by the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee. Their report, endorsing the preferred candidate, has been published on their website.

As is standard for all public appointments we would not name organisations or individuals in order to protect the confidentiality of the process.