This data collection presents yearly data on non-ministerial departments and non-departmental public bodies taken from Public Bodies, an annual publication published by the Cabinet Office, supplemented by additional information gathered by the authors. Each row in the data corresponds to a year-body combination.The ESRC Centre for Competition Policy (CCP) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) undertakes interdisciplinary research into competition policy and regulation that has real-world policy relevance without compromising academic rigour. It prides itself on the interdisciplinary nature of the research and the members are drawn from a range of disciplines, including economics, law, business and political science. The Centre was established in September 2004, building on the pre-existing Centre for Competition and Regulation (CCR), with a grant from the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council). It currently boasts a total of 26 faculty members (including the Director and a Political Science Mentor), 4 full- and part-time researchers and 23 PhD students.

Data were input from successive editions of “Public Bodies”, and cross-checked against the documentary record, incl. Hansard.