The Commissioner for Public Appointments regulates appointments to over 300 public bodies.
The number of regulated bodies sponsored by each Department is as follows:
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport – 41 public bodies.
Ministry of Justice – 35 public bodies, including regional voluntary justice bodies such as the independent monitoring boards
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy – 31 public bodies
Department of Health, and Social Care – 25 public bodies including NHS Improvement, with a Public Appointments team overseeing appointments to 100s of NHS trustsp>
Home Office – 25 public bodies
Department for Education – 20 public bodies
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs – 19 public bodies
Department for Transport – 17 public bodies
Department for Work and Pensions – 11 public bodies
Cabinet Office – 11 public bodies
Ministry of Defence – 11 public bodies
Ministry of Housing, Communities, and Local Government – 9 public bodies
Her Majesty’s Treasury – 6 public bodies
Northern Ireland Office – 5 public bodies
Department for International Development – 3 public bodies
Foreign and Commonwealth Office – 3 public bodies
Department for International Trade – 1 public body
UK Export Finance – 1 public body
Scotland Office – 1 public body
Attorney General’s Office – 1 public body