Accountability of quangos and public bodies inquiry

Inquiry by the Public Administration Committee, 28 February 2014 to 28 February 2014. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

• 1st Report - Who's accountable? Relationships between Government and arm's-length bodies (10 November 2014)
• 6th Special Report - Who's accountable? Relationships between Government and arm's-length bodies: Government Response to the Committee's First Report of Session 2014-15 (20 March 2015)

Evidence sessions

• 29 April 2014: Professor Chris Skelcher, Professor of Public Governance, University of Birmingham, Dr Katherine Tonkiss, Research Fellow, University of Birmingham, and Tom Gash, Director of Research, Institute for Government.
• 17 June 2014: Jonathan Isaby, Chief Executive, TaxPayers’ Alliance, and Dr Michael Pinto Duschinsky, Research Fellow, Policy Exchange, Rob Whiteman, Chief Executive, Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, and former Chief Executive of the United Kingdom Border Agency, Rt Hon Caroline Spelman MP, former Secretary of State, and Rt Hon John Redwood MP, former Secretary of State.
• 24 June 2014: Rt Hon Lord Smith of Finsbury, Chairman, Environment Agency, Bronwyn Hill CBE, Permanent Secretary, Defra, and Sonia Phippard, Director, Water and Flood Risk Management, Defra; Una O’Brien CB, Permanent Secretary, Department of Health, Simon Stevens, Chief Executive, NHS England, and Professor Chris Ham CBE, Chief Executive, the King’s Fund; Baroness Morgan of Huyton, Chair, Ofsted, and Neil Greenwood, Deputy Director of Strategy, Policy and Performance, Ofsted.
• 14 July 2014: Mr Nick Hurd MP, Minister for Civil Society