Public Bodies Bill: reforming the public bodies of the Ministry of Justice

Results updated 12 Apr 2013

This is the consultation response for the consultation paper, 'Consultation on reforms proposed in the Public Bodies Bill' which was published on 12 July 2011 and closed on 11 October 2011.

The department received 2,742 responses. The response paper confirms the Ministry of Justice's intentions to abolish:

• The Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council
• Courts Boards
• The Crown Court Rule Committee
• HM Inspectorate of Court Administration
• The Magistrates’ Courts Rule Committee
• The Public Guardian Board
• To transfer functions in relation to:
  Public Record Office, HM Stationery Office, Keeper of Public Records and the Advisory Council on Public Records (providing for the transfer functions to The Public Record Office, which it is intended to rename The National Archives)

Files:

• Response to consultation on reforms proposed in the Public Bodies Bill , 221.2 KB (PDF document)
• Ymateb i ymgynghoriad ynglyn â’r diwygiadau a gynigir yn y Bil Cyrff Cyhoeddus, 313.5 KB (PDF document)
• Impact assessment - Abolition of the Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council (AJTC), 117.6 KB (PDF document)
• Impact assessment - Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Court Administration, 91.0 KB (PDF document)
• Equality impact assessment - Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council , 61.3 KB (PDF document)
• Equality impact assessment - Courts Boards, 41.0 KB (PDF document)
• Equality impact assessment - Crown Court Rule Committee, 38.5 KB (PDF document)
• Equality impact assessment - HM Inspectorate of Court Administration, 105.7 KB (PDF document)
• Equality impact assessment - Magistrates’ Courts Rule Committee, 49.4 KB (PDF document)
• Equality imoact assessment - The National Archives, 54.0 KB (PDF document)
• Courts Boards: consultation responses, 847.6 KB (PDF document)
• HMICA and PGB consultation responses, 724.2 KB (PDF document)
• Equality impact assessment (updated 16 May 2012) - Public Guardian Board, 45.7 KB (PDF document)
• CCRC and MCRC consultation responses, 261.6 KB (PDF document)
• Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council consultation responses, 3.5 MB (PDF document)
• Victims' Advisory Panel consultation responses, 335.2 KB (PDF document)