UK Public Bodies

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Looking for a list of all UK public bodies, including but not limited to:

• Departments
• Agencies
• Non-departmental public bodies
• Local authorities

This package may act as a parent package to other relevant lists/datasets. In the first instance, these can be linked to from here.

A few examples and relevant links:

• Scottish National Devolved Public Bodies
• DirectGov A-Z of Central Government
• List of public authorities on What Do They Know - and as CSV
• Guardian's list of Every Quango in Britain
• EC Directorate-General “Internal Market and Services" List of UK public bodies bound by EU procurement legislation (suggested by Jose L. Marin on 2010-01-10).
• According to Jose L. Marin: "Euroalert is going to contribute with its 3334 list of UK bodies that have published contracts in EU since 2008."
• CIPFA codes (suggested by Chris Taggart). Requested by Chis Taggart on 2010-01-28.
• List of Non-departmental public bodies from Cabinet Office (in PDF)
• List of UK Public bodies that have issued contract announcements above thresholds in Official Journal of the European Union between April 2008 and 28th January 2010 from Euroalert.net
• UK Crown bodies (subject to Crown copyright) as suggested by David Pidsley