The Board of Taylor Wimpey plc announced the following changes in the composition of its Board and Board Committees: Having served as a Non Executive Director since April 2011, Dame Kate Barker will stand down from the Board on 31 July 2020. Kate has kindly agreed to extend marginally beyond her nine year point at the Board's request to provide a short period of continuity to new Chair Irene Dorner who, as previously announced, will assume the Chair on 26 February 2020. Kate will stand down as a member of the Audit and Remuneration Committees and relinquish her current role as the Company's Senior Independent Director at her nine year point on 20 April 2020, before formally retiring from the Board on 31 July 2020. The Company announced that Kate will be succeeded as the Company's Senior Independent Director by Robert Noel. Rob joined the Board as an independent Non Executive Director on 1 October 2019.