Nothing to do with us, gov

I asked the government department for Business, Innovation & Skills if it had an opinion about "Nolan Procedures" for appointing board members to the Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership, particularly in the light of founding chairman Sir John Banham's enthusiasm for appointment by"stakeholders'" election, similar to a PLC . This was the reply:

"The LEP board appointment process will be for the LEPs themselves to decide. Central Government is not dictating how they should do it though of course we would encourage best practice."

So I then asked, for the initial appointments, at a time when the LEPs obviously do not actually exist, who should appoint the first board members? To which BIS replied:

"It's for the partners who put forward the initial LEP proposals to appoint the board members."