Question follow-through · 44566

Arms Length Bodies

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to reduce the (a) number and (b) administrative costs of arms length bodies.

answeredCabinet Office

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Answering body: Cabinet Office
Tabled: 7 Apr 2025
Target answer date: 22 Apr 2025
Answer: 22 Apr 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

7 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to reduce the (a) number and (b) administrative costs of arms length bodies.
22 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Prime Minister has commissioned departments to assess all current and proposed arms length bodies against new principles to determine which should continue, close, merge, or have functions returned to departments. This is part of the government's miss...

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