§ Mr. McAllionTo ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster which of the agencies established to date are run on a trading fund basis; which are subject to gross running costs control; and which are subject to net running cost control.
§ Mr. PortilloI have been asked to reply.
The following agencies operate as trading funds:
- Central Office of Information
- Companies House
- Fire Service College
- HMSO
- Patent Office
- Royal Mint
- The Buying Agency
- Vehicle Inspectorate
The following agencies operate under net running cost control:
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- Accounts Services Agency
- ADAS Agency
- Building Research Establishment
- Central Veterinary Laboratory
- Civil Service College
- DVOIT
- Historic Royal Palaces
- Laboratory of the Government Chemist
- Land Registry
- Medicines Control Agency
- National Engineering Laboratory
- National Physical Laboratory
- Natural Resources Institute
- Ordnance Survey
- Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre
- Radiocommunications Agency
- Registers of Scotland
- Transport Research Laboratory
- Valuation Office
- Vehicle Certification Agency
- Warren Spring Laboratory
- Wilton Park Conference Centre
The following agencies operate under gross running cost control:
- Cadw (Welsh Historic Monuments)
- Central Science Laboratory
- Central Statistical Office
- Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment1
- Compensation Agency
- Defence Research Agency
- Directorate General of Defence Accounts1
- Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
- Driver and Vehicle Testing Agency
- Driving Standards Agency
- Duke of York's Royal Military School
- Employment Service
- Forensic Science Service
- Historic Scotland
- Hydrographic Office1
- Insolvency Service
- Intervention Board
- Meteorological Office
- Military Survey1
- National Weights and Measures Laboratory
- Naval Aircraft Repair Organisation1
- NHS Estates
- Occupational Health Service
- Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland
- Planning Inspectorate
- Public Record Office
- Queen Victoria School
- RAF Maintenance1
- Rate Collection Agency
- Recruitment and Assessment Services Agency
- Scottish Agricultural Science Agency
- Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency
- Service Children's School (North West Europe)1
- Social Security Agency
- Social Security Benefits Agency
- Social Security Contributions Agency
- Social Security Information Technology Services Agency
- Social Security Resettlement Agency
- Teachers' Pensions Agency
- Training and Employment Agency
- United Kingdom Passport Agency
- Veterinary Medicines Directorate
- 1 Defence Support Agency.
Customs and Excise and Inland Revenue (excluding the Valuation Office) are departments operating fully on Next Steps lines with 30 executive units and 34 executive offices respectively. Gross control of running costs applies to both departments except in the case of Inland Revenue's Valuation Office which, as shown, operates as a free standing agency under net control.
A few agencies, such as the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, shown as operating under gross control, have limited freedom to utilise income to meet expenditure subject to guidelines agreed with the parent Department and the Treasury.