Departments of the United Kingdom Government

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The Government of the United Kingdom contains a number of Ministries, known in the United Kingdom as Government Departments.

Contents 1 Types of Government Department 2 List of Departments of the United Kingdom Government 2.1 Ministerial Departments 2.2 Non-Ministerial Departments 2.3 Unsorted 3 See also 4 External link

Types of Government Department

• Ministerial Departments are led politically by a Government Minister, and cover matters that require direct political oversight. For most Departments, the Government Minister in question is known as a Secretary of State and is a member of the Cabinet. He or she is generally supported by a team of junior Ministers. The administrative management of the Department is led by a senior civil servant known as a Permanent Secretary.
  • Subordinate to these Ministerial Departments are executive agencies. An Executive Agency is a non-departmental public body that has a degree of autonomy to perform an operational function (cf. QUANGOs). They usually report to one or more specific Government Departments, which will set the funding and strategic policy for the Agency.

• Non-ministerial departments generally cover matters for which direct political oversight is judged unnecessary or inappropriate. They are headed by senior civil servants. Some fulfil a regulatory or inspection function, and their status is therefore intended to protect them from political interference. Some are headed by Permanent Secretaries or Second Permanent Secretaries.

List of Departments of the United Kingdom Government

For some Departments, this list includes some executive agencies which report to it.

Ministerial Departments

• Cabinet Office (CO) [1]
  • Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) [2]
• Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) [3]
• Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) [4]
• Ministry of Defence (MoD) [5]
• Department for Education and Skills (DfES) [6]
• Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) [7]
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) [8]
• Department of Health (DH) [9]
• Home Office (HO) [10]
• Department for International Development (DFID) [11]
• Law Officers' Department (LSLO) [12]
• Northern Ireland Office (NIO) [13]
• Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) [14]
• Office of the Leader of the House of Commons [15]
• Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) [16]
• Scotland Office (SO) [17]
• Department for Transport (DfT) [18]
• Her Majesty’s Treasury (HMT) [19]
• Wales Office (WO) [20]
• Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) [21]

Non-Ministerial Departments

• The British Council [22]
• British Trade International [23]
• Charity Commission [24]
• Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt (CRND) [25]
• Crown Estate [26]
• Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) [27]
• Electoral Commission [28]
• Export Credits Guarantee Department ECGD [29]
• Food Standards Agency [30]
• Forestry Commission [31]
• HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) [32]
• Land Registry [33]
• Nuclear Decommissioning Authority [34]
• Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED) [35]
• Office for the Regulation of Electricity and Gas (NI) (OFREG) [36]
• Office of Communications (Ofcom) [37]
• Office of the e-Envoy (OeE) [38]
• Office of Fair Trading (OFT) [39]
• Office of Gas and Electricity Markets/Gas and Electricity Markets Authority (OFGEM) [40]
• Office of Government Commerce (OGC) [41]
• Office of the Information Commissioner (OIC) [42]
• Office for National Statistics (ONS) [43]
• Office of Science and Technology (OST) [44]
• Office of the International Rail Regulator (OIRR) [45]
• Office of the Rail Regulator (ORR) [46]
• Office of Water Services (OFWAT) [47]
• Postal Services Commission (PSC) [48]
• Public Works Loan Board (PWLB) [49]
• Royal Household
• Serious Fraud Office (SFO) [50]
• Small Business Service (SBS) [51]
• UK Trade and Investment [52]

Unsorted

• The Stationery Office [53]
• Privy Council Office (PCO) [54]

See also

• Prime Minister's Office (No 10) [55]
• British Civil Service
• Executive agency
• Public bodies and task forces of the UK government
• QuANGO
• Civil service of the United Kingdom
• Politics of the United Kingdom
• UK topics

External link

• Directgov - widest range of government information and services online
• Business Link - main Government-to-business website, explains regulatory policies of more than 80 departments and agencies