Question follow-through · 44025
Arms Length Bodies
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.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 3 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 10 Apr 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Apr 2025
Question tabled
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.
7 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Apr 2025
Answer published
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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