Departments of the United Kingdom Government
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Her Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom contains a number of Ministers and Secretaries of State. These members of the Cabinet are supported by civil servants in Ministerial Departments.
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[edit] Types of Government Department
- Ministerial Departments are led politically by a Government Minister, and cover matters that require direct political oversight. For most Departments, the Government Minister in question is known as a Secretary of State and is a member of the Cabinet. He or she is generally supported by a team of junior Ministers. The administrative management of the Department is led by a senior civil servant known as a Permanent Secretary.
- Subordinate to these Ministerial Departments are executive agencies. An Executive Agency is a non-departmental public body that has a degree of autonomy to perform an operational function (cf. QUANGOs). They report to one or more specific Government Departments, which will set the funding and strategic policy for the Agency.
- Non-ministerial departments generally cover matters for which direct political oversight is judged unnecessary or inappropriate. They are headed by senior civil servants. Some fulfil a regulatory or inspection function, and their status is therefore intended to protect them from political interference. Some are headed by Permanent Secretaries or Second Permanent Secretaries.
[edit] List of Departments of the United Kingdom Government
For some Departments, this list includes some executive agencies which report to it.
[edit] Ministerial Departments
- Cabinet Office (CO)
- Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI, formerly HMSO)
- Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG)
- Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA)
- Scotland Office (SO)
- Wales Office (WO)
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)
- Department for Education and Skills (DfES)
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
- Department of Health (DH)
- Department for International Development (DFID)
- Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)
- Department for Transport (DfT)
- Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)
- Her Majesty’s Treasury (HMT)
- Home Office (HO)
- Legal Secretariat to the Law Officers (LSLO)
- Ministry of Defence (MoD)
- Northern Ireland Office (NIO)
- Office of the Leader of the House of Commons
[edit] Non-Ministerial Departments
- The British Council
- British Trade International [1]
- Charity Commission
- Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt (CRND) [2]
- Crown Estate
- Crown Prosecution Service (CPS)
- Electoral Commission
- Export Credits Guarantee Department ECGD
- Food Standards Agency
- Forestry Commission
- Government Actuary's Department (GAD)
- HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)
- HM Land Registry
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
- Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED)
- Office for the Regulation of Electricity and Gas (NI) (OFREG) [3]
- Office of Communications (Ofcom)
- Office of the e-Envoy (OeE) [4]
- Office of Fair Trading (OFT)
- Office of Gas and Electricity Markets/Gas and Electricity Markets Authority (OFGEM)
- Office of Government Commerce (OGC)
- Office of the Information Commissioner (OIC)
- Office for National Statistics (ONS)
- Office of Science and Technology (OST)
- Office of the International Rail Regulator (OIRR) [5]
- Office of the Rail Regulator (ORR)
- Postal Services Commission (PSC) [6]
- Public Works Loan Board (PWLB) [7]
- Royal Household
- Serious Fraud Office (SFO)
- Small Business Service (SBS) [8]
- UK Trade and Investment [9]
- Water Services Regulation Authority (Ofwat)
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[edit] See also
- Prime Minister's Office (No. 10)
- Her Majesty's Government (formal)
- British Civil Service
- Executive agency
- Public bodies and task forces of the UK government
- QuANGO
- Politics of the United Kingdom
- UK topics
- Government operations
[edit] External links
- Directgov - widest range of government information and services online
- Business Link - main Government-to-business website, explains regulatory policies of more than 80 departments and agencies
- A list of all all government bodies (including Gov. Departments) granted Crown Copyright
- Yorkshire Forward - The Regional Development Agency for Yorkshire & Humber
