| Heading: |
Arms Length Bodies |
| Question ID: |
1792196 |
| UIN: |
44025 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-03 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4813 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Mr Richard Holden
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| Asking Member handle: |
RicHolden
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@RicHolden
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, in what circumstances new public bodies do not have to meet the last resort test in the Approvals Process guidance for new Arm's Length Bodies. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-10 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
5305 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Georgia Gould
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| Answering Member handle: |
georgia_gould
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@georgia_gould
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| Answer text: |
An ALB needs to pass at least one of three tests: (1) it is a technical function that requires external expertise (2) it needs to be delivered with political impartiality, or (3) it needs to be delivered independently from Ministers to establish facts and... |
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| Answering body ID: |
53 |
| Answering body name: |
Cabinet Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |