Mr. Kieran Mulvey:

We should be clear that all of the bodies we fund have different histories, structures and arrangements between full-time and elected officials. That is also true of charities, trade unions and most other organisations. We do not lay down and have never been asked to lay down that a chief executive may not be a member of the board of an organisation. However, if it were to be laid down by Government policy as a condition of funding, we would impose it.