Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the annual cost to the public purse of the 406 agencies and other public bodies listed on the gov.uk website is.

The Public Bodies 2018/19 report, published on 22 March 2019, sets out the gross resource expenditure of
the 301 arm’s length bodies which include all executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies as well
as non-ministerial departments, the latter of which are not included in the 406 bodies listed on gov.uk. As of
31 March 2018, the gross resource expenditure was £203.8 billion. Further information on how this cost is
broken down per organisation across services provided, running costs of the organisation and other costs
can be obtained from the organisations directly

The annual cost to the public purse of the other public bodies listed on the gov.uk website is not held
centrally.