HC Deb 05 December 2001 vol 376 cc333-5W
Mr. Andrew Turner

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list those public bodies to which his Department appoints members and which are not listed in Public Bodies 2000. [17594]

Angela Eagle

Public Bodies 2000 sets out information on non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs), certain public corporations (including nationalised industries) and NHS bodies. There are four types of NDPB: executive NDPBs; advisory NDPBs; tribunal NDPBs; and boards of visitors to penal establishments. The next edition will be published around the end of the year. Information about taskforces, and ad hoc advisory groups is set out in an annual report, published by the Cabinet Office. Copies of Public Bodies 2000 are in the Library and this publication may be accessed via the Cabinet Office's website http:// www.official-documents.co.uk/document/caboff/pb00/ pb00.htm. Copies of the annual report on taskforces and similar bodies have also been placed in the Library and the annual report is being made available on the Cabinet Office's website.

Home Office Ministers now appoint members to the following bodies, which are not listed in Public Bodies 2000:

  • Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (NDPB)
  • Annual Reviewer of the Criminal Justice (Conspiracy and Terrorism) Act 1998
  • Annual Reviewer of the Terrorism Act 2000
  • Asylum Support Adjudicators
  • Charity Commission
  • Criminal Justice Consultative Council
  • Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of the National Probation Service for England and Wales
  • Immigration Nationality Directorate Complaints Audit Committee
  • Independent Assessor of Compensation for Miscarriages of Justice
  • Metropolitan Police Authority
  • Ministerial Advisory Group to the Retail Crime Reduction Action Team
  • National Probation Service
  • Prisons and Probation Ombudsman
  • Property Crime Reduction Action Team
  • Retail Crime Reduction Action Team
  • Selection Panels for Independent Members of the Police
  • Authorities for 42 Provincial Forces
  • Service Authority for the National Criminal Intelligence Service
  • Service Authority for the National Crime Squad
  • Vehicle Crime Reduction Action Team
  • Visitor Committees for Immigration Detention Centres:
    • Campsfield House
    • Dungavel
    • Harmondsworth
    • Oakington
    • Tinsley House
    • Yarl's Wood.

In addition to the above, the Home Office also has responsibility for the following bodies, to which appointments are made by Her Majesty the Queen or the Prime Minister:

  • Investigatory Powers Tribunal (NDPB)
  • Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons
  • Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary
  • Intelligence Services Commissioner
  • Interception of Communications Commissioner
  • Police Advisory Board.

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