Guidance

List of Public Bodies for Review in 2024/25

Updated 3 May 2024

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Attorney General’s Office

  • Government Legal Department

Cabinet Office

  • None

Department for Business and Trade

  • Competition and Markets Authority
  • Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service

Department for Culture, Media and Sport

  • National Lottery Community Fund

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  • The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has not provided public body review plans.

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

  • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
  • Salix Finance[footnote 1]

Department for Education

  • The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education
  • Social Work England

Department for Transport

  • National Highways
  • Maritime & Coastguard Agency

Department of Health and Social Care

  • The Department of Health and Social Care has not provided public body review plans.

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

  • Regulator of Social Housing
  • Valuation Tribunal Service

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

  • Building Digital UK
  • Intellectual Property Office

Department for Work and Pensions

  • The Pensions Ombudsman

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

  • The British Council

HM Treasury

  • UK Infrastructure Bank
  • Reclaim Fund Limited

Home Office

  • Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority
  • College of Policing

Ministry of Defence

  • Defence Equipment and Support 
  • Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
  • Submarine Delivery Agency
  • UK Hydrographic Office
  • Single Source Regulations Office 
  • Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust
  • Nuclear Research Advisory Council 
  • Independent Medical Expert Group
  • Science Advisory Committee on the Medical Implications of Less-Lethal Weapons
  • Defence Science Expert Committee

Ministry of Justice

  • Legal Aid Agency
  • Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service
  • Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
  • His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service[footnote 1]

Northern Ireland Office

  • None

Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland

  • None

  1. Denotes a review initiated in a previous year and intentionally delayed until 2024/25. ↩ ↩2

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