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Smaller services and public bodies
As well as Home Office headquarters and our delivery agencies, there are a number of public bodies and inspectorates that 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.
Independent inspectorates and ombudsmen
These are independent parts of the organisation that inspect and report on the quality of the police, prison and probation services.
The following are now part of the Ministry of Justice (new window)
- HM Inspectorate of Prisons (new window)
- HM Inspectorate of Probation (new window)
- Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (new window)
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)
- Assets Recovery Agency (new window)
- Community Development Foundation (new window)
- Independent Police Complaints Commission (new window)
- Investigatory Powers Tribunal (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
- Poisons Board
- Police Discipline Appeals Tribunal
- Police Negotiating Board
- Regulation of Investigtory Powers Act Technical Advisory Board (new window)
- Security Industry Authority (new window)
- Serious Organised Crime Agency (new window)
Note: Centrex and the Police Information Tehcnology Organisation were absorbed into the National Policing Improvement Agency (new window).
The following organisations are now part of the Ministry of Justice (new window)
- Sentencing Advisory Panel and Sentencing Guidelines Council (new window)
- Parole Board (new window)
- Youth Justice Board (new window)
- Correctional Services Accreditation Panel
- Criminal Cases Review Commission (new window)
- Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (new window)
- Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeals Panel (new window) (CICAP)
- Independent Monitoring Boards (new window)
