Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Livermore on 17 September (HL810), whether the application and correspondence for the Recruitment Principles exemption for Ian Corfield, sent by the Treasury, informed the Civil Service Commission of the previous political donation from Mr Corfield to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Ian Corfield was appointed via Exception to the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. The Department followed the established process to make the appointment and was granted the required approval from the Civil Service Commission. Ian Corfield was appointed on a short-term basis to carry out urgent work in support of the new government’s International Investment Summit in October. A full recruitment process could not have been completed in the time available.

The established process for the declaration of propriety matters was followed, and this process does not involve the Civil Service Commission.