How many non-departmental public bodies and government agencies there were in May (a) 2007 and (b) 2010.

In 2007 the Scottish Government redefined the public body landscape as part of its Simplification Programme and in October 2007 it published a comprehensive baseline list of 199 national devolved public bodies. Progress towards achieving the government''s target to reduce the number of public bodies by 25% is being measured against the baseline list. The Simplification Programme Tracker provides details of the changes across the public body landscape and is available at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/public-bodies/simplification-programme/SimplificationTracker.
Historical information on national devolved public bodies is also available on the Public Bodies pages of the Scottish Government website at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/public-bodies/pubs/Information.
A list of current national devolved public bodies is available in the National Public Bodies Directory at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/public-bodies/about/Bodies.