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Departmental NDPBs

Volume 504: debated on Thursday 28 January 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport for how many non-departmental public bodies his Department is responsible. (314251)

DCMS is responsible for 56 public bodies. These comprise: four public corporations, two public broadcasting authorities, one Executive agency, 47 non-departmental public bodies (36 Executive NDPBs, 10 advisory NDPBs and one tribunal NDPB), plus two unclassified bodies who receive Exchequer funding.

Information and statistical data on the DCMS bodies are contained in the DCMS Public Bodies Directory, which can be found on the DCMS website:

http://www.culture.gov.uk/images/publications/2009DCMS PublicBodiesDirectory.pdf

Since publication UK Anti Doping (an Executive NDPB) has been created.