Question follow-through · 38853

Home Office: Non-departmental Public Bodies

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of abolishing non-departmental public bodies on (a) her Department's costs and (b) democratic accountability.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 17 Mar 2025
Target answer date: 20 Mar 2025
Answer: 20 Mar 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

17 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of abolishing non-departmental public bodies on (a) her Department's costs and (b) democratic accountability.
20 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Mar 2025
Answer published
We keep all bodies sponsored and funded by the Home Office under review, to ensure they are delivering public outcomes efficiently and effectively.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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