{"value":{"id":662216,"memberId":4021,"member":null,"memberRole":"Minister for the Constitution","uin":"HCWS384","dateMade":"2016-12-20T00:00:00","answeringBodyId":53,"answeringBodyName":"Cabinet Office","title":"Public Bodies 2016","text":"<p>Public Bodies are a crucial part of how Government delivers its priorities. Well-governed, effective and efficient public bodies help contribute to building public trust in Government at a time when this has never been more important.</p><p>CO is collaborating across Government, engaging with senior leaders and Non-Executive Directors from departments and arm’s-length bodies to promote good governance, disseminate best practice and drive reform. Together, we aim to deliver a more cost-effective, transparent and simplified landscape that is better able to meet the needs of the people it serves.</p><p>Public Bodies 2016 is an annual Directory which provides a single source of top-level cost and non-cost data on all executive agencies, non-departmental public bodies and non-ministerial departments. It also sets out the government’s strategy for public bodies reform for the remainder of the Parliament.</p><p>The Cabinet Office will today publish Public Bodies 2016 and I am also placing it in the Library of the House.</p>","house":"Commons","noticeNumber":1,"hasAttachments":false,"hasLinkedStatements":false,"linkedStatements":null,"attachments":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Statements/662216","method":"GET"}]}