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Public Bodies 2013 December 2013 Correction: The Public Bodies data originally published in December 2013 contained an error in the expenditure of the Olympic Delivery Authority (which was repeated in the summary of expenditure table). This has been corrected in this document. The data contained in this report represents management information that is provided in the interests of improving transparency in the public bodies sector. They are not official statistics. Unless stated otherwise a common reporting date of 31 March 2013 is used. More recently updated information may be available, for example data is published by sponsoring departments and the Office for National Statistics. In addition, related information on Public Appointments is published by the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments. Contents Introduction ............................................................................................................ 1 Key to Directory Fields ........................................................................................... 3 Directory Cabinet Office .................................................................................................... 5 Charity Commission for England and Wales ..................................................... 10 Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt ..................................... 11 Crown Prosecution Service ............................................................................... 12 Department for Business, Innovation and Skills ................................................ 13 Department for Communities and Local Government ....................................... 32 Department for Culture, Media and Sport .......................................................... 37 Department for Education .................................................................................. 57 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ........................................ 61 Department for International Development ........................................................ 75 Department for Transport ................................................................................... 76 Department for Work and Pensions ................................................................... 84 Department of Energy and Climate Change ...................................................... 90 Department of Health ......................................................................................... 94 Export Credits Guarantee Department .............................................................. 102 Food Standards Agency .................................................................................... 103 Foreign and Commonwealth Office ................................................................... 107 Forestry Commission ......................................................................................... 110 Government Actuary's Department .................................................................... 112 Her Majesty's Land Registry .............................................................................. 113 Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs................................................................. 114 Her Majesty's Treasury ...................................................................................... 115 Home Office ....................................................................................................... 117 Ministry of Defence ............................................................................................. 127 Ministry of Justice ............................................................................................... 137 National Archives, The ....................................................................................... 152 National Savings and Investments ..................................................................... 153 Northern Ireland Office ....................................................................................... 154 Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (OFSTED) ... 156 Office of Fair Trading (OFT) ............................................................................... 157 Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem) ................................................... 158 Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (OFQUAL) ..................... 159 Office of Rail Regulation .................................................................................... 160 Office of Water Services (Ofwat) ....................................................................... 161 Ordnance Survey ............................................................................................... 162 Public Works Loan Board .................................................................................. 163 Scotland Office ................................................................................................... 164 Serious Fraud Office .......................................................................................... 165 Treasury Solicitor's Department ......................................................................... 166 UK Statistics Authority ........................................................................................ 167 UK Supreme Court ............................................................................................. 168 UK Trade & Investment ...................................................................................... 169 ANNEXES ............................................................................................................ 170 INDEX .................................................................................................................. 177 include many museums and galleries and Introduction the Information Commissioner’s Office. The 2013 release of Public Bodies aims Advisory NDPBs – provide to provide a single transparent statement independent, expert advice to ministers. on a broad range of bodies sponsored by Examples include the Low Pay the UK Government. Commission and the Committee on Standards in Public Life. Public Bodies 2013 is intended to be viewed in an online spreadsheet; allowing Tribunal NDPBs – have jurisdiction easier searching and re-use of the in a specialised field of law. Examples information. This directory version has include the Traffic Commissioners and been produced only to aid those who Deputies. wish to have an alternative format. Independent Monitoring Boards – are independent watchdogs attached to Scope of Public Bodies each prison establishment, immigration Public Bodies has been published by the removal centre and holding room in Cabinet Office since 1980. The 2013 England and Wales. release of information provides a directory of data for Non Departmental Executive Agencies are part of a Public Bodies (NDPBs), Executive Government department. They are Agencies and almost all Non-Ministerial business units headed by a Chief Departments1 as at 31 March 2013. Executive. They carry out executive functions within policy set by ministers. Ministers do not concern themselves with What are NDPBs, Executive the day to day running of agencies but Agencies and Non-Ministerial are accountable to Parliament and the public for their overall performance and Departments? continued existence. They are staffed by The NDPB classification is not a legal civil servants; included within the ‘parent’ classification but an administrative one. A department’s Estimate (money voted by NDPB is a body which has a role in the Parliament); and publish their own process of national government but is not accounts, which are consolidated into a government department, or part of one those of the parent department. and therefore operates to a greater or lesser extent at arm’s length from Non-Ministerial Departments are ministers. Government departments in their own right but do not have their own minister. There are four types of NDPB: They are, however, accountable to Executive NDPBs – typically Parliament through their sponsoring established in statute and carrying out ministers. Non-Ministerial Departments executive, administrative, regulatory are staffed by civil servants; and have and/or commercial functions. Examples their own Estimate and accounts. Some Non-Ministerial Departments operate along executive agency lines. Examples 1 Whilst HMRC [weblink to HMRC 2012-13 Annual Report] is a include: the Crown Prosecution Service Non-Ministerial Department, in size and profile it more closely resembles a Minister-led Department than other NMDs. It has and the Food Standards Agency. therefore been exempted from this dataset. 1 2 Key to Directory Fields General: The information is as at 31 March 2013 unless indicated otherwise. Department: Name of the sponsoring department. Name: Name of the public body. Type: See “What are NDPBs, Executive Agencies and Non-Ministerial Departments?” on page 1. Regulatory Function: Indicates where the body performs a Regulatory function i.e. 'exerting powers over, or imposing burdens on, other organisations or individuals; by means of inspection, licensing, referral to another decision-maker (particularly with binding advice), accreditation or enforcement.’ Public Bodies Reform proposal: The proposals made in relation to the body as part of the Public Bodies Reform programme. Contact Details: Postal address, telephone, email and website address for the body. Description/Terms of