Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the framework agreement between his Department and the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments.

The Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACoBA) is an independent body sponsored and funded by the Cabinet Office. ACoBA is part of the ‘Independent Offices’ and shares a secretariat and Accounting Officer with the Civil Service Commission and the Office for the Commissioner for Public Appointments. Work is well advanced on a new Framework Document for the ‘Independent Offices’ which will be published in due course.