Chamber and committees

Question reference: S3W-04108

Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: 7 September 2007
Current status: Answered by John Swinney on 19 September 2007

Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many quangos there have been in each year since 1995, giving the name of each.

Answer

The following tableshows the trend in the number of non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) from1999 to 2006.

Number of NDPBs: 1999to 2006

1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
186	184	183	151	144	140	142	140

Information on thenumber of NDPBs was maintained by the Cabinet Office prior to formation of the Scottish Parliament.

The Public Bodiesand Appointment pages of the Scottish Government website provide details of allcurrent NDPBs in Scotland and includes financial and staffing data.

The site isregularly updated and is the main source of publicly available information onNDPBs in Scotland. The site’s address is http://www.scotland.gov.uk/government/publicbodies/.Prior to thewebsite’s establishment in 2002, detailed historical information on NDPBs waspublished in the annual Cabinet Office document Public Bodies. Copies of the 1998 to 2006 versions of the document are available at http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/other/agencies/public_bodies/index.asp.

The 1997 versionis available from:

http://www.archive.official-documents.co.uk/document/caboff/bodies97/contents.htm.

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