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Public Bodies 2012 ERRATA The figures for the Student Loan Company’s total Government Funding and Total Gross Expenditure should read £98,989,000 and £97,303,000 respectively. Correspondingly, the totals for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in Annex E should be £11,051,182,575 and £11,896,765,575 and the Grand Totals in that table should be £25,854,377,728 and £31,297,436,917 respectively. The Infrastructure Planning Commission should be included at Annex I under the heading: Other Changes since Public Bodies 2009. Like National Tent Voice and Young People’s Learning Agency, it was established and abolished as an NDPB. 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, in Part One of the report a common reporting date of 17 December 2012 is used and in Part Two it is 31 March 2012. 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 FOREWORD PART ONE 1 Introduction .................................................................................................... 1 The Case for Reform ..................................................................................... 3 Public Bodies Reform programme ................................................................. 7 Transformation and Continuous Improvement .............................................. 11 PART TWO 17 NDPB Directory .............................................................................................. 17 Cabinet Office ................................................................................................ 19 Department for Business Innovation & Skills ................................................. 24 Department for Communities and Local Government .................................... 40 Department for Culture, Media and Sport ...................................................... 44 Department for Education .............................................................................. 63 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs .................................... 65 Department for International Development .................................................... 77 Department for Transport ............................................................................... 78 Department for Work and Pensions ............................................................... 83 Department of Energy and Climate Change .................................................. 90 Department for Health .................................................................................... 94 Export Credits Guarantee Department ........................................................... 113 Food Standards Agency ................................................................................. 114 Foreign and Commonwealth Office ................................................................ 118 Forestry Commission ...................................................................................... 121 Government Equalities Office ......................................................................... 122 Her Majesty's Treasury ................................................................................... 123 Home Office .................................................................................................... 124 Ministry of Defence ......................................................................................... 132 Ministry of Justice ........................................................................................... 140 Northern Ireland Office ................................................................................... 154 Scotland Office ............................................................................................... 156 ANNEXES Triennial Reviews – Year One (2011-12) Bodies ........................................... A Triennial Reviews – Year Two (2012-13) Bodies ........................................... B Number of NDPBs by sponsoring Department ............................................... C Staffing of Executive NDPBs .......................................................................... D Expenditure of Executive NDPBs ................................................................... E Public Appointments – Disability .................................................................... F Public Appointments – Ethnicity ..................................................................... G Public Appointments – Gender ....................................................................... H New and Former NDPBs ................................................................................ I INDEX 220 fewer bodies than there were in May FOREWORD 2010. This publication also contains information on the costs of NDPBs. You will see that the “Welcome to Public Bodies 2012, a cost of public bodies is reducing, with publication which sets out in one place reductions of over £400 million in easy to understand information on the administrative spending already delivered in number, scope and types of Non- 2011-12. Over the course of the Spending Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs). Review period departments estimate there will be a net reduction of at least £2.6 billion Shortly after coming to office in 2010, the from the running costs of public bodies. Government announced a wide-ranging review of public bodies which were at arm’s- There should be no doubt that the length from Government. At the time, that transformation is not yet complete. We need landscape was confusing with a proliferation to continue the pace of reform and maintain of bodies; some redundant, some duplicating appropriate control by keeping public bodies the work of others, and some needlessly under regular, systematic review. We also distant from the accountability of ministers. need to ensure that the benefits of increased accountability and greater transparency As a result of that review, a substantial become the norm for public bodies. There programme of reform has been underway to may be challenges that require us to adapt bring order to that landscape, to save and refine our approach, but the success of money, increase accountability, and to the programme so far demonstrates that the simplify the sector. This publication now capability and appetite to do so is strong. gives the public a clear picture of the progress that has been made over the last I am therefore pleased to present this two years. document which sets out the progress made so far on the programme of reform and If you were to compare this edition of Public provides a transparent directory of Bodies with earlier publications, you will see information that allows taxpayers to better that where a function of a public body did not understand the public bodies landscape.” need to be undertaken at arm’s length, but must remain in the public sector, it has been brought back into departments where ministers can be clearly and directly held to account for it. Nick Hurd MP You will see that we have simplified the Minister for Civil Society landscape too with over 130 bodies abolished and more than 150 others merged into fewer than 70. In total - half way through our reform programme - there are around • a directory of data for NDPBs PART ONE sponsored by UK government departments as at 31 March 2012 INTRODUCTION Because the report covers these three distinct areas, it should be noted that the range of bodies considered in each section Public Bodies 2012 aims to provide a single varies. In all cases, information is not transparent statement of what Non- included for public bodies and public Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs) exist, appointments which solely relate to Scotland, what they spend, who works for them, and Wales and Northern Ireland, which are a how they impact on people’s lives. The matter for the devolved administrations. Report also gives information on public appointments and provides an update on the Public Bodies 2012 also sees a return to the progress of the Government’s programme of issue of a single central report along the Public Bodies Reform. lines of the reports produced by the Cabinet Office up to 2006, which were briefly The scope of the Public Bodies Report replaced by a summary of individual departmental reports between 2006 and Public Bodies has been published by the 2009. Cabinet Office since 1980 and reports the size, expenditure and membership of the What is a NDPB? NDPB sector. The NDPB classification is not a legal Public Bodies provides: classification but an administrative one. A NDPB is a body which has a role in the • an assessment of the progress made process of national government but is not a on public bodies reform since May government department, or part of one and 2010 therefore operates to a greater or lesser extent at arm’s length from ministers. • information on public appointments, namely those appointed to the boards There are four types of NDPB: of NDPBs and to other national public bodies, including public corporations, Executive NDPBs – typically established in some Non-Ministerial Departments statute and carrying out executive, and National Park Authorities. These administrative, regulatory