Regulation: Public Bodies

(asked on 14th June 2023) - View Source
Questioner
Richard Fuller Portrait
Richard Fuller
(Conservative - North East Bedfordshire)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy for all Departments to publish a list of all their associated public bodies that have been delegated power to (a)make amend or revoke, (b) enforce and (c) monitor compliance with regulations.

Answered by
Jeremy Quin Portrait
Jeremy Quin
This question was answered on 23rd June 2023

The Cabinet Office publishes a list of public bodies classified as arm’s length bodies, the public bodies directory, which includes whether an organisation performs a regulatory function.

The arm’s length bodies which departments have flagged as performing a regulatory function through the most recent public bodies directory data collection are:

  • Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board

  • Animal and Plant Health Agency

  • British Hallmarking Council

  • Care Quality Commission

  • Charity Commission for England & Wales

  • Civil Justice Council

  • Civil Service Commission

  • Coal Authority

  • Commission on Human Medicines

  • Competition and Markets Authority

  • Copyright Tribunal

  • Education and Skills Funding Agency

  • Environment Agency

  • Equality and Human Rights Commission

  • Food Standards Agency

  • Forestry Commision

  • Gambling Commission

  • Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority

  • Health and Safety Executive

  • Health Education England

  • Health Research Authority

  • Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England

  • Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority

  • Human Tissue Authority

  • Independent Monitoring Authority for the Citizens’ Rights Agreements

  • Independent Office for Police Conduct

  • Information Commissioner's Office

  • Insolvency Service

  • Legal Services Board

  • Marine Management Organisation

  • Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA)

  • Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency

  • Natural England

  • NHS Improvement (includes Monitor and TDA)

  • Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission

  • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority

  • Office for Environmental Protection

  • Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (OFSTED)

  • Office for Students

  • Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem)

  • Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (OFQUAL)

  • Office of Rail and Road

  • Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner

  • Oil and Gas Authority (now called the North Sea Transition Authority)

  • Parades Commission for Northern Ireland

  • Pensions Ombudsman

  • Planning Inspectorate

  • Regulator of Social Housing

  • School Teachers’ Review Body

  • Sea Fish Industry Authority

  • Security Industry Authority

  • Single Source Regulations Office

  • Small Business Commissioner

  • Social Work England

  • Sports Grounds Safety Authority

  • The Housing Ombudsman

  • The Pensions Regulator

  • The Statistics Board, publicly known as the UK Statistics Authority

  • Theatres Trust

  • Traffic Commissioners

  • Trinity House

  • UK Hydrographic Office

  • UK Space Agency

  • Valuation Tribunal for England

  • Valuation Tribunal Service

  • Veterinary Medicines Directorate

  • Water Services Regulation Authority (OFWAT)

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