questionText: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, through which mechanisms non-ministerial departments are accountable to Parliament.
answerText: A non-ministerial department (NMD) is a government department, but one that does not have its own minister. An individual NMD is accountable to Parliament through its sponsoring ministers, and the NMD Permanent Secretary, who is the accounting officer. No...
heading: Arms Length Bodies: Parliamentary Scrutiny