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	Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner (Ombudsman) - Describes the role of the Ombudsman in supplementing the work of MPs in investigating complaints and possible injustices. Site explains how the complaints procedure operates.
	The Industrial Injuries Advisory Council - Describes the role, activities and publications of the IIAC, an independent statutory body which advises the Government on the industrial injuries scheme.
	Low Pay Commission - Advises the Government on the implementation of the National Minimum Wage. Site provides details of the Commission and its work, with online versions of its publications.
	Charity Commission for England and Wales - Regulates the administration and affairs of registered UK charities. Site gives detailed advice and policies on charitable activities, with a searchable database of UK charities.
	Forestry Commission of Great Britain - Responsible for the protection and expansion of Britain's forests and woodlands. Site provides information on the Commission's activities, properties and development plans.
	Audit Commission - Regulates the proper control of public finances by local authorities and the National Health Service in England and Wales. Site provides news and information on events, the work of the commission and policy guidance.
	Commission for Racial Equality - Publicly funded non-governmental body set up to tackle racial discrimination and promote racial equality. Provides information about racial discrimination, ethnic diversity, race relations and relevant UK law.
	The Millennium Commission - Independent body in established in 1993 to distribute Lottery money to millennium projects. Provides information on the Commission and its work, including advice on how to apply for Lottery funds.
	Historical Manuscripts Commission - The UK's central advisory body on archives and manuscripts. It maintains the National Register of Archives, ARCHON, and the Manorial Documents Register.
	Electoral Commission - Independent body which reports directly to Parliament, responsible for supervising and implementing the new regulatory framework for the electoral system. Site provides details of the Commission's work and reports.
	Human Genetics Commission - Government advisory body concerned with the implications of recent developments in the science of genetics and their applications. Site provides information on the Commission, information on topics of interest and publications.
	The Law Commission for England and Wales - Independent body set up by Parliament to review and recommend reform of the law in England and Wales. Provides a profile of the Commission and its members with information on their work and a library of publications.
	Legal Services Commission - Executive non-departmental public body (formerly the Legal Aid Board) created to develop and administer the Community Legal Service and the Criminal Defence Service in England and Wales. Provides information on legal services and advice for those seeking legal help.
	National Lottery Commission - Non-departmental public body (formerly the OFLOT, the Office of the National Lottery) which regulates and develops policy on the National Lottery. Gives information on the rules under which the National Lottery is operated.
	Criminal Cases Review Commission - Independent body responsible for investigating suspected miscarriages of criminal justice in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Information on the Commission and advice on how to make use of its services.
	The Agriculture and Environment Biotechnology Commission - Strategic advisory body on biotechnology issues affecting agriculture and the environment. Information about the Commission and its work, with downloadable copies of reports.
	UK Sustainable Development Commission - Advisory body responsible for promoting sustainable development by the UK and devolved governments. Information on the Commission's roles and responsibilities, with an archive of papers and publications.
	Disability Rights Commission - Independent statutory body established to help secure civil rights for disabled people. Provides information on the rights of the disabled and the Commission's work to promote and secure those rights.
	Commission for Integrated Transport - Established to provide independent advice to the Government on the implementation of integrated transport policy and to monitor developments in transport and the environment. Provides information on the role and membership of the Commission, plus copies of its reports and publications.
	House of Lords Appointments Commission - Recommends and vets individuals for membership of the House of Lords. Provides details of the applicable codes of conduct, criteria and a nomination form.
	Commission for Health Improvement - Independent non-departmental public body aiming to improve the quality of patient care in the NHS. Provides details of the Commission, the results of investigations, studies, reviews and reports.
	Policy Commission on the Future of Farming and Food - Advisory body investigating the development of the farming and food sector. Details of the Commission's work and its final report.
	Information Commissioner - Responsible for regulating the use and storage of personal information, and for overseeing the implementation of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act. Site provides a searchable online version of the Data Protection Register.
	Postcomm - The Postal Services Commission - Independent regulator and advisory body on the Post Office. Information on the work and composition of the Commission, with guidance and background information on the regulation of the UK postal services sector.
	The National Care Standards Commission - Independent public body set up under the Care Standards Act 2000 to regulate social care and private and voluntary health care services throughout England. Provides information on the work of the Commission and its standards and inspections regime.
	Medicines Commission - Responsible for advising the Government on the implementation of the Medicines Act 1968. Provides information about the role, responsibilities, activities and membership of the Commission.
	The Office of the Civil Service Commissioners - An independent body reporting directly to the Queen responsible for ensuring open and fair recruitment to the UK's Civil Service. Provides information and publications relating to the work of the Commissioners.
	Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments - Describes the role of the Commissioners in monitoring, regulating and providing advice on Government Departments' procedures for Ministerial appointments to public bodies. Includes details on how to contact the OCPA.
	Women's National Commission - Official independent advisory body giving the views of women to the Government. Provides information on the Commission, its publications and consultative documents.

It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn' To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live. -- H "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. -- Lucille S. Harper Advisers and Commissioners If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be. -- Richard Mitchell, from "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. -- Oscar Wilde Advisers and Commissioners Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off! -- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Hell is a half-filled auditorium. - Robert Frost Advisers and Commissioners Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -- Winston Churchill Advisers and Commissioners No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry Advisers and Commissioners Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you enough chance to love you enough. -- Dinah Shore "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -- Rainer Maria Rilke Advisers and Commissioners When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Advisers and Commissioners To love another person is to help them love God. -- S�ren Kierkegaard I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Advisers and Commissioners "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone I think, therefore I'm single. -- Female philosopher Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Advisers and Commissioners Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you enough chance to love you enough. -- Dinah Shore Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. -- Anonymous Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares, assess randomi Advisers and Commissioners Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Whatever you are, be a good one. -- Abraham Lincoln Work is the curse of the drinking class. -- Oscar Wilde University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger Advisers and Commissioners I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. -- Rodney Dangerfield Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -- Dr. Karl Menninger "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Advisers and Commissioners A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -- Gloria Steinem Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -- Thomas Szasz Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. -- Dave Barry Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you enough chance to love you enough. -- Dinah Shore There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. -- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Advisers and Commissioners If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. -- Joseph Addison The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Advisers and Commissioners Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the Advisers and Commissioners "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. -- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. -- Schopenhauer Advisers and Commissioners Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. -- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Youth is wasted on the young. -- George Bernard Shaw The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "That's funny..." -- Isaac Asimov It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear. -- Henry David Thoreau The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -- Robert M. Pirsig Advisers and Commissioners Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- P. J. O'Rourke "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Advisers and Commissioners An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. -- Anonymous Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. -- Dave Barry "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Advisers and Commissioners "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. -- Wayne Gretzky Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what you are getting. -- Anonymous Advisers and Commissioners Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. -- Clare Boothe Luce "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. -- William Penn Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. -- Chinese Proverb "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Advisers and Commissioners "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." 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