These staff include two special advisers.
Task forces are normally short-term bodies set up quickly with a specific remit.
Members are drawn from across the voluntary, public and private sectors, and are appointed for their expertise and experience in a particular field. It is for individual Ministers to determine the publication arrangements for reports prepared by task forces which they have established. Ministers have a duty to Parliament to account, and be held to account, for the policies, decisions and actions of their departments and Next Steps agencies. This includes accounting for the work of task forces. Those task forces which are classified as non-departmental public bodies are accountable directly to Parliament through their sponsoring department.