Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Henley on 22 June (HL8591), when each of the bodies listed became public under the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000.

The Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 was enacted on 28 July 2000. On that date the following public bodies were already in existence:

Bank of England

Companies House

Insolvency Service

The Financial Reporting Council was incorporated in March 1990 and became a public body in its current form in 2004.

The Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority were established in their current form in April 2013 by the Financial Services Act 2012.