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Triennial review reports

Reviews to ensure that non-departmental public bodies are still needed and are complying with principles of good corporate governance.

Updates to this page

From:
Cabinet Office and Efficiency and Reform Group
Published:
6 August 2013
Last updated:
28 November 2016
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  1. Added Review of the Veterans Advisory and Pensions Committees 2016

  2. Added Review of the Information Commissioner's Office 2016

  3. Added Senior Salaries Review Body Triennial Review 2014

  4. Added Boundary Commissions triennial review report.

  5. Added Civil Service Commission review report.

  6. Added 'British Hallmarking Council: triennial review 2013 to 2014'.

  7. Parole Board for England and Wales: triennial review report published.

  8. JAC triennial report 2015 added.

  9. Reviews for Council for Science & Technology and Competition Appeals Tribunal/Competition Service added.

  10. Added the Armed forces pay review body triennial review 2014.

  11. Added Nuclear Research Advisory Council and Defence Nuclear Safety Committee triennial review report for the Ministry of Defence.

  12. Updated links to guidance on carrying out triennial reviews.

  13. added link to 'Royal Mint Advisory Committee on the design of coins, medals, seals and decorations'

  14. Added Social Science Research Committee and Big Lottery Fund triennial reviews.

  15. Law Commission triennial review stage 1 & 2 reports added

  16. Added the Scientific Advisory Committee on the medical implications of less-lethal weapons (SACMILL) report.

  17. Added Defence Scientific Advisory Council (DSAC) triennial review 2014

  18. Migration Advisory Committee triennial review added.

  19. Export Guarantees Advisory Council triennial review added

  20. Added the Advisory Group on Military Medicine: triennial review report

  21. Added Building Regulations Advisory Committee triennial review.

  22. Triennial Review of the Independent Commission for Aid Impact and Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the United Kingdom (CSC): Triennial review added

  23. Triennial Review of the Veterinary Products Committee added to collection.

  24. Added Security Vetting Appeals Panel report.

  25. Link to Youth Justice Board triennial review added.

  26. Added National Forest Company triennial review to the collection.

  27. MOD added Central Advisory Committee on Pensions and Compensation (CAC) triennial review 2013.

  28. MOD added National Employer Advisory Board (NEAB) triennial review.

  29. First published.

In April 2011, Cabinet Office announced that all non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) still in existence following the reforms brought about by the Public Bodies Act would have to undergo a substantive review at least once every 3 years, starting in 2011 to 2012.

These triennial reviews would have 2 purposes:

  • to provide a strong challenge of the continuing need for individual NDPBs, both their function and their form, employing the ‘3 tests’ discipline
  • where it is agreed that a particular body should remain as an NDPB, to review the control and governance arrangements in place to ensure that the public body is complying with recognised principles of good corporate governance

Read the Triennial Reviews Guidance on how to carry out a review. Contact the Cabinet Office for a copy the original June 2011 guidance.

The guidance states that each review should be open and transparent, with a report at the end of the review providing evidence and rationale for decisions about the body’s future. Departments publish these reports online and announce their publication to Parliament.

Guidance on the triennial review process is part of the wider governance of public bodies.

Triennial reports published on other websites

Reports published in 2016

Reports published in 2015

Reports published in 2014

Reports published in 2013

Reports published in 2011 to 2012

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