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Non-departmental Public Bodies

Volume 456: debated on Monday 29 January 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence which non-departmental public bodies are sponsored by his Department; what the function is of each body; and what the annual budget of each body was in the most recent year for which figures are available. (116758)

Details of the remit, Government funding and gross expenditure of public bodies sponsored by the Ministry of Defence can be found in the Cabinet Office publication Public Bodies 2006, copies of which are available in the Library of the House and also on-line at:

http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/other/agencies/publications/pdf/public-bodies/publicbodies2006.pdf

For those bodies in respect of which no information on expenditure was provided in Public Bodies 2006, their approximate expenditure in 2005-06 was as follows:

Amount (£)

Advisory Committee on Conscientious Objectors

0

Animal Welfare Advisory Committee

8,000

Central Advisory Committee on War Pensions and War Pensions Committees

37,300.

Dartmoor Steering Group

60

Defence Nuclear Safety Committee

35,000

Defence Scientific Advisory Council

200,000

Depleted Uranium Oversight Board

554,700

Independent Board of Visitors for the Military Corrective Training Centre

1,200

National Employer Advisory Board

6,900

Nuclear Research Advisory Council

30,000