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