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Public Bodies 2006 CONTENTS Public Bodies Directory…….......................................................... i The scope of the directory........................................................... i What is a Public Body?................................................................ i Numbers of bodies..................................................................... ii Appointments to Public Bodies .................................................... ii Regulating the appointment process............................................. iii Task Forces............................................................................... iii Closed Bodies……………………………….………………………………………………………. iv Regulators……………………………………………..……………………………………………… iv Reports: Table 1 – Number of Public Bodies 2005/06 by Department at 31.03.06 v Table 2 – Staffing of Executive NDPBs 2006 at 31.03.06 vi Table 3 – Women appointed to Public Bodies at 31.03.06 vii Table 4 – Public appointments held by people from minority ethnic backgrounds at 31.03.06 viii Table 5 – Public appointments held by people with a disability at 31.03.06 x Table 6 – Public Bodies’ Expenditure for 2005–06 xii Key to Directory Fields ………………………………..……………………………………… xiii PUBLIC BODIES LISTED BY DEPARTMENT Cabinet Office ............................................................................. 1 Department for Communities and Local Government…………………………… 8 Department for Constitutional Affairs……………………………………………………. 20 Department for Culture, Media and Sport ....................................... 34 Department for Education and Skills............................................... 69 Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs .......................... 82 Department for International Development..................................... 112 Department for Transport............................................................. 114 Department for Work and Pensions ............................................... 122 Department of Health................................................................... 134 Department of Trade and Industry ................................................ 179 Export Credits Guarantee Department.......................................... 213 Food Standards Agency................................................................ 214 Foreign and Commonwealth Office …............................................. 218 Forestry Commission................................................................... 225 HM Revenue and Customs.......................................................... 227 HM Treasury ............................................................................. 228 Home Office............................................................................... 232 Ministry of Defence..................................................................... 252 Northern Ireland Executive Public Bodies.................................... 263 NIE Department for Employment and Learning .............................. 263 NIE Department for Regional Development.................................... 267 NIE Department for Social Development........................................ 269 NIE Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.................... 275 NIE Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure ................................. 280 NIE Department of Education....................................................... 283 NIE Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment ..................... 288 NIE Department of Finance and Personnel...................................... 291 NIE Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety............. 294 NIE Department of the Environment.............................................. 307 NIE Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister .................. 310 Northern Ireland Court Service .................................................... 315 Northern Ireland Office .............................................................. 318 Royal Mint................................................................................. 327 Annexes: Annex 1 - Closed Bodies ……………………………………………………………………… 329 Annex 2 – Regulators ..………………………………………………………………………. 334 Index of Public Bodies ……………………………………………………..………..……… 337 Public Bodies Directory This directory gives a comprehensive snapshot of the public bodies sponsored by the UK Government as at 31 March 2006. Public bodies carry out a wide range of functions on behalf of government. As part of the commitment to transparency and accountability, the Cabinet Office collects and publishes annually information about public bodies as a whole, to supplement information about individual bodies already contained in departmental annual reports. The scope of the directory Until 2002, the Public Bodies publication reported on the public bodies sponsored by the devolved administrations as well as UK Government departments. In recognition of the bedding down of devolution arrangements, the directory now gives full information, summary statistics and analysis only for bodies sponsored by UK Government departments (including the Northern Ireland Office). The Scotland Office is now a component part of the Department for Constitutional Affairs and its sole public body is included in the DCA entry. The Wales Office has no public bodies. In the absence currently of devolved government in Northern Ireland, full details of public bodies sponsored by the Northern Ireland Executive (NIE) are included. However, NIE bodies and appointments are excluded from the statistical summaries. Information about public bodies and public appointments in Scotland and Wales can be obtained from the devolved administrations themselves: Scotland - http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/public - bodies/introduction Wales - http://www.wales.gov.uk/recruitment/pubapps-e.htm What is a Public Body? A public body is not part of a government department, but carries out its function to a greater or lesser extent at arm's length from central government. For this reason non-Ministerial departments and executive agencies are excluded from this directory, as they are departments or part of one. Information on these bodies can be found in a sister directory at: http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/ministerial_responsibilities/?OpenFrameSet. Ministers are ultimately responsible to Parliament for the activities of the bodies sponsored by their department and in almost all cases (except, for example, where there is separate statutory provision) ministers make the appointments to their boards. Departments are responsible for funding and ensuring good governance of their public bodies. In this publication,