Public authorities
Found 45 public authorities in the category ‘Non-ministerial departments’
Also called COI
The Central Office of Information closed on 31st March 2012.
Defunct.
Defunct.
36 requests.
Also called Charity Commission
Not called the "Charities Commission" but sometimes searched for using that term.
1128 requests.
The Competition and Markets Authority is a non-ministerial government department, it is the UK's lead competition and consumer body.
The CMA aims to...
160 requests.
Among other duties the Procurator Fiscal performs, in Scotland, a role analogous to the role carried out in England and Wales by coroners.
286 requests.
Also called CPS
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is the head of the Crown Prosecution Service. The Director operates under the superintendence of the Attorney...
1411 requests.
The agency contracts ACTSO Ltd in connection with the provision of "National Trading Standards". We list ACTSO Ltd so you can make a request in public...
280 requests.
The Forestry Commission is unusual in that it is both a Government Department and a statutory body with a board of Commissioners.[1]
Users wishing t...
228 requests.
On 1 April 2015 the Treasury Solicitor's Department became the Government Legal Department.
‘Bona Vacantia’ means vacant goods and is the name...
202 requests.
Also called Inspectorate of Prosecution in Scotland
19 requests.
Also called HMRC
Do not make requests for your own personal information, or seek to correspond about your own personal circumstances, via WhatDoTheyKnow. Anything which...
3944 requests.
Also called KLTR
This public authority was called the Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer (QLTR) during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.
6 requests.
Also called KPS
The King's Printer for Scotland (KPS) is responsible for overseeing the publication of Scottish legislation, and for the management of Crown copyright...
7 requests.
The National Archives is the official archive and publisher for the UK Government, and for England and Wales and holds over 1,000 years of public recor...
265 requests.
Also called OFT
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) closed on 31 March 2014, and its work and responsibilities passed to a number of different bodies.
The Competition...
Defunct.
Defunct.
90 requests.
Also called OGC
The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) seems to have been abolished and subsumed into the Cabinet Office's "Government Procurement Service" (More deta...
Defunct.
Defunct.
19 requests.
Also called ORR
Known as the Office for Rail Regulation from 5th July 2004. Renamed to its current title on 1 April 2015 following the passage of the Infrastructure Ac...
217 requests.
Also called Registrar of Independent Schools
8 requests.
Also called RCPO
RCPO was merged with The Crown Prosecution Service on 1 January 2010
Defunct.
Defunct.
2 requests.
Revenue Scotland is non-ministerial department of the Scottish Administration and is responsible for collecting and administering the devolved taxes in...
20 requests.
According to its website the UK Statistics Authority has two main functions:
oversight of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) - its executive o...
312 requests.
UKTI was replaced by the Department for International Trade in July 2016.
Defunct.
Defunct.
76 requests.
The Welsh Revenue Authority collects and manages Welsh devolved taxes.
8 requests.
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Emergency services
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Energy and utilities
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Environment and conservation
- Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty Conservation Boards
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- Zoos
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Finance
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Health
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- Accountable Care Organisations
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Housing
- Housing ALMOs
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Law-making bodies, the courts and the legal system
- UK Parliament
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Media and culture
- Archives
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Military and security services
- Armed Forces
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Recreation
Regulators and ombudsmen
- Advertising regulators
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- Charity regulators
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- Health regulators
- Health and social care regulators
- Housing regulators
- Information regulators
- Media regulators
- Money laundering supervisory authorities
- Ombudsmen
- Police regulators
- Professional bodies
- Transport regulators
- Utility regulators
- Regulators
- Independent Monitoring Boards for Short-term Holding Facilities
Transport and infrastructure
- Airport operators
- Bus operators
- Companies controlling national infrastructure
- General Lighthouse Authorities
- Highways Operators
- Local Lighthouse Authorities
- Navigation authorities
- Operators of Last Resort
- Operator of Last Resort Holding Companies
- Passenger transport executives
- Port authorities
- Railway companies
- Safer Roads Partnership
- Sub-national transport bodies
- Telecommunications companies
- Toll companies
- Tramway operators
- Transport regulators
- Trunk road agencies (Wales)
Organisations whose members are public authorities
- Associations of Local Councils
- Groups of universities
- Health and Social Care Partnerships (Scotland)
- Integrated Care Partnerships
- Integration Joint Boards
- Professional buying organisations
- Welsh Regional Partnership Boards
- Other associations of public authorities
Other
- Advocates
- Appeals panel
- Boundary commissions
- Churches and church bodies
- Conference centres
- Inquiries
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- Publicly funded charities
- Royal duchies
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- Voluntarily applying FOI
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By legal form/status
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- Charities
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- Public limited companies
- Royal commissions
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Defunct bodies
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- Agricultural dwelling house advisory committees
- Agricultural wages committees
- Clinical Commissioning Groups
- Cultural consortia
- District policing partnerships
- Education and library boards
- Government offices for the regions
- GP commissioning consortia
- Municipal banks
- Independent panels
- New Deal for Communities partnership
- Police authorities
- Primary care trusts
- Probation trusts
- Regional assemblies
- Regional development agencies
- Regional flood defence committees
- Sea fisheries committees
- Strategic health authorities
- Test authorities