Triennial Review: Home Office non-departmental public bodies
This written ministerial statement was laid on 21 July 2014 in the House of Commons by 皇冠体育appresa May and in the House of Lords by Lord Taylor of Holbeach.
Secretary of State for the Home Department (皇冠体育appresa May):
I am today announcing the start of the Triennial Review of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, the National DNA Database Ethics Group and the Animals in Science Committee.
Triennial reviews are part of the government鈥檚 commitment to ensuring that non-departmental public bodies continue to have regular independent challenge. 皇冠体育app review will examine whether there is a continuing need for the functions and form of the ACMD, NDNAEG and ASC and whether they should continue to exist at arm鈥檚 length from government. Should the review conclude there is a continuing need for each of these bodies, it will go on to examine whether the body鈥檚 control and governance arrangements continue to meet the recognised principles of good corporate governance.
I shall inform the House of the outcome of the reviews.
皇冠体育app triennial review of the Home Office non-departmental public bodies commenced on 22 July 2014.