To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what the (a) budget and (b) remit is of each non-departmental public body sponsored by his Department; who the chairman is of each; and to what salary, including bonuses and expenses, each chairman is entitled. (163614)

Details of the budgets, remits and chairmen's salaries of the Department's non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) are published in the Public Bodies Directory 2007 and relate to the position as at 31 March 2007. The Report can be found at:

http://www.berr.gov.uk/about/strategy-objectives/annual-spending/page4039.html

Information on Chairmen's bonuses should be contained in each NDPB's annual report and accounts, which are normally available on the body's website. Alterations to the Department's public bodies announced during the machinery of Government changes in June 2007 are as follows:

From Cabinet Office to the Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR)

Executive NDPB

Local Better Regulation Office

Advisory NDPB

Better Regulation Commission

From BERR to the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills

Executive NDPB

British Hallmarking Council

Design Council

Research Councils

Technology Strategy Board

Advisory NDPB

Council for Science and Technology

Tribunal NDPBs

Copyright Tribunal

Agencies

NWML

UK Intellectual Property Office