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, Scottish Government,

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. Executive agencies are "machinery of government" devices distinct both from

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s and

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(or "

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s"), each of which enjoy legal and constitutional separation from ministerial control. The model has been applied in several other countries.

Size and scope

Agencies include well-known organisations such as

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and the

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. The annual budget for each agency, allocated by

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, ranges from a few million pounds for the smallest agencies to £700m for the Court Service. Virtually all government departments have at least one agency.

Issues and reports

The initial success or otherwise of executive agencies was examined in the Sir Angus Fraser's Fraser Report of 1991. Its main goal was to identify what good practices had emerged from the new model and spread them to other agencies and departments. The report also recommended further powers be devolved from ministers to chief executives. A series of reports and

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s examining governmental delivery were published throughout the 1990s, under both

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and Labour governments. During these the agency model became the standard model for delivering public services in the United Kingdom. By 1997, 76% of civil servants were employed by an agency. The new Labour government in its first such report – the ''1998 Next Steps Report'' – endorsed the model introduced by its predecessor. A later review (in 2002, linked below) made two central conclusions (their emphasis): :"The agency model has been a success. Since 1988 agencies have transformed the landscape of government and the responsive and effectiveness of services delivered by Government." :"Some agencies have, however, become disconnected from their departments ... The gulf between policy and delivery is considered by most to have widened." The latter point is usually made more forcefully by Government critics, describing agencies as "unaccountable

s".

List by department

Attorney General's Office

Non-ministerial department

Crown Prosecution Service The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is the principal public agency for conducting criminal prosecutions in England and Wales. It is headed by the Director of Public Prosecutions. The main responsibilities of the CPS are to provide legal ad ...

* Government Legal Department * Serious Fraud Office

Other

* HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate

Cabinet Office

Ministerial department

* Office of the Leader of the House of Commons * Office of the Leader of the House of Lords

Executive agency

Crown Commercial Service The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) is an executive agency and trading fund of the Cabinet Office of the UK Government. The CCS is responsible for managing the procurement of common goods and services, increasing savings for the taxpayer by centr ...

Executive non-departmental public body

Civil Service Commission A civil service commission is a government agency that is constituted by legislature to regulate the employment and working conditions of civil servants, oversee hiring and promotions, and promote the values of the public service. Its role is rough ...

Advisory non-departmental public body

* Advisory Committee on Business Appointments *

Boundary Commission for England The boundary commissions in the United Kingdom are non-departmental public bodies responsible for determining the boundaries of constituencies for elections to the House of Commons. There are four boundary commissions: * Boundary Commission for E ...

* Boundary Commission for Wales * Committee on Standards in Public Life *

House of Lords Appointments Commission The House of Lords Appointments Commission is an independent advisory non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom. It has two roles: *to recommend at least two people a year for appointment as non-party-political life peers who sit on the ...

* Security Vetting Appeals Panel * Senior Salaries Review Body * Social Mobility Commission

Other

* Commissioner for Public Appointments * Government Estates Management * Office of the Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists * Privy Council Office

Civil Service

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Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

Non-ministerial department

Competition and Markets Authority The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is the competition regulator in United Kingdom. It is a non-ministerial government department in the United Kingdom, responsible for strengthening business competition and preventing and reducing anti-com ...

HM Land Registry His Majesty's Land Registry is a non-ministerial department of His Majesty's Government, created in 1862 to register the ownership of land and property in England and Wales. It reports to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strat ...

Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain. The agency's name indicates its original military purpose (see ordnance and surveying), which was to map Scotland in the wake of the Jacobite rising of 1745. There was ...

Executive agency

Companies House Companies House is the executive agency of the company registrars of the United Kingdom, falling under the remit of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. All forms of companies (as permitted by the Companies Act) are ...

* Insolvency Service * Intellectual Property Office *

Met Office The Meteorological Office, abbreviated as the Met Office, is the United Kingdom's national weather service. It is an executive agency and trading fund of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and is led by CEO Penelope ...

UK Space Agency The United Kingdom Space Agency (UKSA) is an executive agency of the Government of the United Kingdom, responsible for the United Kingdom's civil space programme. It was established on 1 April 2010 to replace the British National Space Centr ...

Executive non-departmental public body

* Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service *

British Hallmarking Council The British Hallmarking Council (BHC) is the organisation responsible for supervising hallmarking in the United Kingdom. It is a non-departmental public body of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). The BHC was create ...

* Civil Nuclear Police Authority * Coal Authority *

Committee on Climate Change The Climate Change Committee (CCC), originally named the Committee on Climate Change, is an independent non-departmental public body, formed under the Climate Change Act (2008) to advise the United Kingdom and devolved Governments and Parliament ...

* Competition Service * Nuclear Decommissioning Authority * UK Atomic Energy Authority *

UK Research and Innovation UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is a non-departmental public body of the Government of the United Kingdom that directs research and innovation funding, funded through the science budget of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Str ...

(UKRI), overseeing: **

Arts and Humanities Research Council The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), formerly Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB), is a British research council, established in 1998, supporting research and postgraduate study in the arts and humanities. History The Arts a ...

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), part of UK Research and Innovation, is a non-departmental public body (NDPB), and is the largest UK public funder of non-medical bioscience. It predominantly funds scientific res ...

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is a British Research Council that provides government funding for grants to undertake research and postgraduate degrees in engineering and the physical sciences, mainly to univers ...

Economic and Social Research Council The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), formerly the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), is part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). UKRI is a non-departmental public body (NDPB) funded by the UK government. ESRC provides fund ...

** Innovate UK ** Medical Research Council **

Natural Environment Research Council The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) is a British research council that supports research, training and knowledge transfer activities in the environmental sciences. History NERC began in 1965 when several environmental (mainly geog ...

Research England Research England is a part of United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI) that oversees the functions of UKRI in relation to university research and knowledge transfer in England. This includes: * providing funding to English universities for re ...

Science and Technology Facilities Council The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is a United Kingdom government agency that carries out research in science and engineering, and funds UK research in areas including particle physics, nuclear physics, space science and astro ...

Advisory non-departmental public body

* Committee on Fuel Poverty * Committee on Radioactive Waste Management * Council for Science and Technology * Industrial Development Advisory Board * Insolvency Rules Committee * Land Registration Rule Committee * Low Pay Commission * Nuclear Liabilities Financing Assurance Board * Regulatory Policy Committee

Tribunal non-departmental public body

Central Arbitration Committee The Central Arbitration Committee is a UK government body, whose task is to oversee the regulation of UK labour law as it relates to trade union recognition and collective bargaining. Chairs * Michael Burton *Former deputy chair, PL Davies See ...

* Competition Appeal Tribunal *

Copyright Tribunal The Copyright Tribunal in the United Kingdom has jurisdiction over some intellectual property disputes under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. The tribunal's principal task is adjudicating disputes between collective licensing agencies ( ...

* Insolvency Practitioners Tribunal

Other

* British Business Bank * Certification Officer * Government Office for Science * Groceries Code Adjudicator * Independent Complaints Reviewer *

Office of Manpower Economics A Review Body in the United Kingdom is a government mechanism to replace collective bargaining for certain groups of employees in the public sector, for example doctors and nurses in the National Health Service. A Review Body makes independent recom ...

* Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies * Oil and Gas Authority

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Executive agency

* Planning Inspectorate * Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre

Executive non-departmental public body

* Ebbsfleet Development Corporation *

Homes and Communities Agency Homes England is the non-departmental public body that funds new affordable housing in England. It was founded on 1 January 2018 to replace the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA). HCA in turn was established by the Housing and Regeneration Act 2 ...

Housing Ombudsman The office of the Housing Ombudsman is an executive non-departmental public body of the government of the United Kingdom, sponsored by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The Housing Ombudsman Service looks at complaints ab ...

* Leasehold Advisory Service * Valuation Tribunal Service

Advisory non-departmental public body

* Building Regulations Advisory Committee

Tribunal non-departmental public body

* Valuation Tribunal for England

Public corporation

Architects Registration Board The Architects Registration Board (ARB) is the statutory body for the registration of architects in the United Kingdom. It operates under the Architects Act 1997 as amended, a consolidating Act. It began under the Architects (Registration) Act ...

Other

* Local Government Ombudsman

Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Non-ministerial department

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Executive agency

* Building Digital UK * Royal Parks

Executive non-departmental public body

* Arts Council England *

Big Lottery Fund The National Lottery Community Fund, legally named the Big Lottery Fund, is a non-departmental public body responsible for distributing funds raised by the National Lottery for "good causes". Since 2004 it has awarded over £9 billion to ...

British Film Institute The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom. The BFI uses funds provided by the National Lottery to encourage film production, ...

British Library The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and is one of the largest libraries in the world. It is estimated to contain between 170 and 200 million items from many countries. As a legal deposit library, the Briti ...

British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docume ...

* English Institute of Sport *

Gambling Commission The Gambling Commission is an executive non-departmental public body of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for regulating gambling and supervising gaming law in Great Britain. Its remit covers arcades, betting, bingo, casinos, ...

* Geffrye Museum *

Historic England Historic England (officially the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England) is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. It is tasked w ...

* Horniman Public Museum and Public Park Trust * Horserace Betting Levy Board *

Imperial War Museum Imperial War Museums (IWM) is a British national museum organisation with branches at five locations in England, three of which are in London. Founded as the Imperial War Museum in 1917, the museum was intended to record the civil and military ...

Information Commissioner's Office The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is a non-departmental public body which reports directly to the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). It is the independe ...

National Gallery The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The current Director o ...

National Heritage Memorial Fund The National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) was set up in 1980 to save the most outstanding parts of the British national heritage, in memory of those who have given their lives for the UK. It replaced the National Land Fund which had fulfilled the ...

* National Lottery Heritage Fund (administered by the NHMF) *

National Museums Liverpool National Museums Liverpool, formerly National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside, comprises several museums and art galleries in and around Liverpool, England. All the museums and galleries in the group have free admission. The museum is a non ...

National Portrait Gallery National Portrait Gallery may refer to: *National Portrait Gallery (Australia), in Canberra *National Portrait Gallery (Sweden), in Mariefred *National Portrait Gallery (United States), in Washington, D.C. *National Portrait Gallery, London, with s ...

Natural History Museum A natural history museum or museum of natural history is a scientific institution with natural history collections that include current and historical records of animals, plants, fungi, ecosystems, geology, paleontology, climatology, and more ...

* Royal Armouries Museum *

Royal Museums Greenwich Royal Museums Greenwich is an organisation comprising four museums in Greenwich, east London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Tha ...

Science Museum Group The Science Museum Group (SMG) consists of five British museums: * The Science Museum in South Kensington, London * The Science and Industry Museum in Manchester * The National Railway Museum in York * The Locomotion Museum (formerly the ...

Sir John Soane's Museum Sir John Soane's Museum is a house museum, located next to Lincoln's Inn Fields in Holborn, London, which was formerly the home of neo-classical architect, John Soane. It holds many drawings and architectural models of Soane's projects, and ...

Sport England Sport England is a non-departmental public body under the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. Its role is to build the foundations of a community sport system by working with national governing bodies of sport, and other funded par ...

* Sports Grounds Safety Authority *

Tate Tate is an institution that houses, in a network of four art galleries, the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art. It is not a government institution, but its main sponsor is the U ...

* UK Anti-Doping *

UK Sport UK Sport is the government agency responsible for investing in Olympic and Paralympic sport in the United Kingdom. It is an executive non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport. It was created ...

Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and ...

* VisitBritain * VisitEngland *

Wallace Collection The Wallace Collection is a museum in London occupying Hertford House in Manchester Square, the former townhouse of the Seymour family, Marquesses of Hertford. It is named after Sir Richard Wallace, who built the extensive collection, along ...

Advisory non-departmental public body

* The Advisory Council on National Records and Archives * The Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest * The Theatres Trust * Treasure Valuation Committee

Public corporation

* BBC *

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* Historic Royal Palaces *

Ofcom The Office of Communications, commonly known as Ofcom, is the government-approved regulatory and competition authority for the broadcasting, telecommunications and postal industries of the United Kingdom. Ofcom has wide-ranging powers acros ...

S4C Authority The S4C Authority ( cy, Awdurdod S4C) is an independent public body appointed by the United Kingdom Government's Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to oversee the management of the Welsh-language television channel S4C. Alt ...

Department for Education

Non-ministerial department

* Ofqual * Ofsted

Executive agency

Education and Skills Funding Agency The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) is an executive agency of the government of the United Kingdom, sponsored by the Department for Education. The ESFA was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of the Education Funding Agency a ...

Teaching Regulation Agency The Department for Education (DfE) is a department of His Majesty's Government responsible for child protection, child services, education (compulsory, further and higher education), apprenticeships and wider skills in England. A Department f ...

* Standards and Testing Agency

Executive non-departmental public body

* Construction Industry Training Board * Engineering Construction Industry Training Board * LocatED * Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education *

Office for Students The Office for Students (OfS) is a non-departmental public body of the Department for Education, acting as the regulator and competition authority for the higher education sector in England. In February 2021, James Wharton, Baron Wharton of Yarm ...

* Office of the Children's Commissioner * Social Work England *

Student Loans Company The Student Loans Company (SLC) is an executive non-departmental public body company in the United Kingdom that provides student loans. It is owned by the UK Government's Department for Education (85%), the Scottish Government (5%), the Welsh ...

Advisory non-departmental public body

* School Teachers' Review Body * Social Mobility Commission

Other

* Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel * Independent Review Mechanism * Office of the Schools Adjudicator

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

Non-ministerial department

Forestry Commission The Forestry Commission is a non-ministerial government department responsible for the management of publicly owned forests and the regulation of both public and private forestry in England. The Forestry Commission was previously also respo ...

** Forestry England ** Forest Research * The Water Services Regulation Authority

Executive agency

* Animal and Plant Health Agency * Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science * Rural Payments Agency * Veterinary Medicines Directorate

Executive non-departmental public body

* Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board * Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew * Consumer Council for Water * Environment Agency * Joint Nature Conservation Committee * Marine Management Organisation * National Forest Company * Natural England * Sea Fish Industry Authority

Advisory non-departmental public body

* Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment * Independent Agricultural Appeals Panel * Science Advisory Council * Veterinary Products Committee

Tribunal non-departmental public body

* Plant Varieties and Seeds Tribunal

Other

* Broads Authority * Covent Garden Market Authority * Dartmoor National Park Authority * Drinking Water Inspectorate * Exmoor National Park Authority * Lake District National Park Authority * New Forest National Park Authority * North York Moors National Park Authority * Northumberland National Park Authority * Peak District National Park Authority * South Downs National Park Authority * UK Co-ordinating Body (Common Agricultural Policy) * Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority

Department for International Trade

Department for Transport

Non-ministerial department

* Office of Rail and Road

Executive agency

* Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency * Maritime and Coastguard Agency * Vehicle Certification Agency

Executive non-departmental public body

* British Transport Police Authority * Directly Operated Railways Limited * High Speed Two (HS2) Limited * Northern Lighthouse Board * Transport Focus * Trinity House

Advisory non-departmental public body

* Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee

Tribunal non-departmental public body

* Traffic commissioner, Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain

Public corporation

* Civil Aviation Authority (United Kingdom), Civil Aviation Authority * London and Continental Railways Ltd

Other

* National Highways * Network Rail * Marine Accident Investigation Branch * Rail Accident Investigation Branch * Air Accidents Investigation Branch

Department for Work and Pensions

Executive non-departmental public body

* Disabled People's Employment Corporation * Health and Safety Executive * National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) Corporation * The Pensions Advisory Service * The Pensions Regulator

Advisory non-departmental public body

* Industrial Injuries Advisory Council * Social Mobility Commission * Social Security Advisory Committee

Tribunal non-departmental public body

* Pension Protection Fund Ombudsman * Pensions Ombudsman

Public corporation

* Office for Nuclear Regulation * Pension Protection Fund

Other

* Independent Case Examiner

Department of Health and Social Care

Executive agency

* Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency * UK Health Security Agency

Executive non-departmental public body

* Care Quality Commission * Health Education England * Health Research Authority * Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority * Human Tissue Authority * NHS Blood and Transplant * NHS Business Services Authority * NHS Digital * NHS England * NHS Litigation Authority (operating as NHS Resolution) * National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Advisory non-departmental public body

* Advisory Committee on Clinical Excellence Awards * British Pharmacopoeia Commission * Commission on Human Medicines * Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment * Independent Reconfiguration Panel * NHS Pay Review Body * Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration

Other

* Accelerated Access Review * Morecambe Bay Investigation * NHS Improvement * National Data Guardian for Health and Social Care * National Information Board * Porton Biopharma Limited

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Executive agency

* FCO Services, FCDO Services * Wilton Park

Executive non-departmental public body

* British Council * Great Britain–China Centre * Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission * Westminster Foundation for Democracy

Public corporation

* BBC World Service

Other

* Chevening Scholarship Programme * Government Communications Headquarters * Secret Intelligence Service

HM Treasury

Non-ministerial department

* National Savings and Investments (NS&I)

Executive agency

* Government Internal Audit Agency * Debt Management Office

Executive non-departmental public body

* Office for Budget Responsibility

Advisory non-departmental public body

* Royal Mint Advisory Committee

Other

* The Crown Estate * Financial Conduct Authority * National Infrastructure Commission * Payment Systems Regulator * Royal Mint * UK Financial Investments * UK Government Investments

Home Office

Executive non-departmental public body

* Disclosure and Barring Service * Gangmasters Licensing Authority * Independent Police Complaints Commission * Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner * Security Industry Authority

Advisory non-departmental public body

* Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs * Animals in Science Committee * Biometrics and Forensic Ethics Group, Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group * Migration Advisory Committee * Police Advisory Board for England and Wales * Police Remuneration Review Body * Technical Advisory Board

Tribunal non-departmental public body

* Investigatory Powers Tribunal * Office of Surveillance Commissioners * Police Discipline Appeals Tribunal

Independent monitoring body

* Independent Anti-slavery Commissioner

Other

* Biometrics Commissioner * Forensic Science Regulator * His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services * Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration * Independent Family Returns Panel * Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation * Intelligence Services Commissioner * Interception of Communications Commissioner * National Counter Terrorism Security Office * National Crime Agency Remuneration Review Body * The Security Service * Surveillance Camera Commissioner

Ministry of Defence

Executive agency

* Defence Electronics and Components Agency * Defence Equipment and Support * Defence Science and Technology Laboratory * UK Hydrographic Office * Submarine Delivery Agency

Executive non-departmental public body

* Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust * National Army Museum * National Museum of the Royal Navy * Royal Air Force Museum * Single Source Regulations Office

Advisory non-departmental public body

* Advisory Committee on Conscientious Objectors * Armed Forces' Pay Review Body * Defence Nuclear Safety Committee * Independent Medical Expert Group * National Employer Advisory Board * Nuclear Research Advisory Council * Scientific Advisory Committee on the Medical Implications of Less-Lethal Weapons * Veterans Advisory and Pensions Committees

Public corporation

* The Oil and Pipelines Agency

Ad-hoc advisory group

* Central Advisory Committee on Compensation

Other

* Advisory Group on Military Medicine * Defence Academy of the United Kingdom * Defence Sixth Form College * Defence and Security Media Advisory Committee * Fleet Air Arm Museum * Reserve Forces and Cadets Association * Royal Marines Museum * Royal Navy Submarine Museum * Service Complaints Ombudsman * Service Prosecuting Authority * United Kingdom Reserve Forces Association * United Kingdom Special Forces Association

Ministry of Justice

Executive agency

* Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority * HM Courts & Tribunals Service * HM Prison Service * Legal Aid Agency * Office of the Public Guardian (England and Wales), Office of the Public Guardian

Executive non-departmental public body

* Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (CAFCASS) * Criminal Cases Review Commission * Judicial Appointments Commission * Legal Services Board * Parole Board for England and Wales * Youth Justice Board

Advisory non-departmental public body

* Advisory Committees on Justices of the Peace * Civil Justice Council * Civil Procedure Rule Committee * Criminal Procedure Rule Committee * Family Justice Council * Family Procedure Rule Committee * Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody * Law Commission (England and Wales), Law Commission * Prison Service Pay Review Body * Sentencing Council * Tribunal Procedure Committee

Other

* Academy for Social Justice * HM Inspectorate of Prisons * HM Inspectorate of Probation * Independent Monitoring Board, Independent Monitoring Boards * Judicial Appointments and Conduct Ombudsman * Judicial Office * Legal Ombudsman * Official Solicitor and Public Trustee * Prisons and Probation Ombudsman * Victims' Commissioner * Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, Crown Office

Northern Ireland Office

Executive non-departmental public body

* Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission * Parades Commission for Northern Ireland

Advisory non-departmental public body

* Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland

Office of the Advocate General for Scotland

Office of the Leader of the House of Commons

Office of the Leader of the House of Lords

Office of the Secretary of State for Wales

Scotland Office

Advisory non-departmental public body

* Boundary Commission for Scotland

UK Export Finance

Advisory non-departmental public body

* Export Guarantees Advisory Council

Non ministerial departments

Not already listed above: * Charity Commission for England and Wales * Food Standards Agency ** Advisory Committee on Animal Feedingstuffs ** Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes ** Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food ** Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment ** Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment * General Advisory Committee on Science * Government Actuary's Department * HM Revenue and Customs ** Valuation Office Agency ** Adjudicator's Office * National Crime Agency * Supreme Court of the United Kingdom * UK Statistics Authority ** Office for National Statistics

Other countries

Several other countries have an executive agency model. In the United States, the Clinton administration imported the model under the name "performance-based organizations." In Canada, executive agencies were adopted on a limited basis under the name "special operating agencies."Alasdair Roberts (academic), Roberts, Alasdair.
''Public Works and Government Services: Beautiful Theory Meets Ugly Reality
HOW OTTAWA SPENDS, G. Swimmer, ed., pp. 171-203 Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1996 One example is the Translation Bureau under Public Services and Procurement Canada. Executive agencies were also established in Australia, Jamaica, Japan and Tanzania.

References

External links

Economic Research Council online database of all UK Quangos 1998-2006
archived in 2007 *2002 Government report into the agencies model entitled
Better Government Services – Executive agencies in the 21st century
published by The Prime Minister's Office of Public Services Reform. Contains a list of agencies. (Portable Document Format, PDF)
Civil Service (archived in 2008)
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