§ Mr. DrewTo ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies were in existence; what was their total annual running cost; how many employees they had; how many board members they had; and how many were in existence per sponsoring department in each of the last five years. [101066]
§ Mr. StringerThe number of executive agencies in existence in each of the last five years is as follows:
Year Number of agencies as at 31 December 1994 1104 1995 1111 1996 1131 1997 2142 1998 2142 1 Figure includes HM Customs and Excise and Inland Revenue which are departments operating fully on Next Steps lines. 2 Figure includes HM Customs and Excise, Inland Revenue, Crown Prosecution Service and Serious Fraud Office which are departments operating fully on Next Step lines. The Next Steps Agencies in Government Review 1995 and 1996, and the Next Steps Report 1997 and 1998, provide details of the total annual running cost and the number of employees for each agency. The Next Steps Agencies in Government Review 1994 also provides details of the number of employees for each agency. Details of the total annual running cost for each agency in existence in 1994 is not centrally held. Executive agencies do not have board members.
The number of non-departmental public bodies in existence in each of the last five years is as follows. 329W
Year Number of NDPBs as at April 1994 1,345 1995 1,227 1996 1,194 1997 1,128 1998 1,073 The Government's annual publication "Public Bodies" for these years provides the relevant details for each body. Copies of these publications are in the Library of the House. "Public Bodies 1999", which is due to be published later this month, will set out the figures for 1999.
£ Value of assets Land and property Executive agency In Scotland Total Total assets Civil Service College 0 8,003,000 9,567,000 Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (CCTA) 0 0 1,386,000 Government Car and Despatch Agency (GCDA) 0 0 2,560,000 Property Advisers to the Civil Estate (PACE) 699,000 1,683,000 18,667,000 The Buying Agency (TBA) 0 0 527,000 Central Office of Information (COI) 0 0 1,295,000 Total 699,000 9,686,000 34,002,000 PACE: Surplus land and property on the Civil Estate for disposal 2,200,000 52,699,000 — The Department is at present implementing resource accounting. Values have been derived from audited accounting information. The first year of published resource accounts will be in respect of 1999–2000.