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Smaller services and public bodies
A number of independent public bodies and inspectorates are part of the organisation or associated with it.
List of public bodies
Download the most recent list of public bodies, including contact information, and names of each agency's leaders.
Non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs)
NDPBs are public bodies that, although not part of government departments, carry out functions on behalf of sponsor departments, who fund them and ensure they are effective.
NDPBs are, however, independent of the department that sponsors them, and are considered to be 'at arm’s length'. This independence allows them to focus entirely on their own objectives and make unbiased recommendations and decisions.
We sponsor the following non-departmental bodies:
- Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (new window)
- Animal Procedures Committee (new window)
- Independent Police Complaints Commission (new window)
- Independent Safeguarding Authority (new window)
- Investigatory Powers Tribunal (new window)
- Migration Advisory Committee (new window)
- National DNA Database Ethics Group (new window)
- National Policing Improvement Agency (new window)
- Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (new window)
- Office of the Surveillance Commissioners (new window)
- Police Arbitration Tribunal
- Police Advisory Board
- Police Discipline Appeals Tribunal
- Police Negotiating Board
- Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act Technical Advisory Board (new window)
- Security Industry Authority (new window)
- Serious Organised Crime Agency (new window)
Independent inspectorates
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HM Inspectorate of Constabulary (new window) inspects and reports on the quality of the police
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The Office of the Chief Inspector of the UK Border Agency (new window) was established to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of the UK Border Agency.
