Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bates on 22 February (HL5517), whether they are able to provide any examples, from the current centrally maintained list of non-departmental central government bodies, of other non-departmental central government bodies that have operated on the basis of expected status rather than actual status confirmed by the National Accounts Classification Committee; and if so, for how long those bodies operated before their status was confirmed.

All bodies deemed to be in the central government sector by HM Treasury are included in the Governments Resource and Accounts Act 2000 (Estimates and Accounts) Order 2017^[1]. All bodies that have been classified by ONS to the central government sector are included in their Public Sector Classifications Guide^[2] . The differences between the two reflect entities that have not yet been formally classified by ONS’s Economic Statistics Classification Committee but following HMT

[1] http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/310/contents/made

[2] https://www.ons.gov.uk/methodology/classificationsandstandards/economicstatisticsclassifications/introductiontoeconomicstatisticsclassifications