UK Public Bodies

Looking for a list of all UK public bodies, including but not limited to:

This package may act as a parent package to other relevant lists/datasets. In the first instance, these can be linked to from here.

A few examples and relevant links:

Scottish National Devolved Public Bodies
DirectGov A-Z of Central Government
List of public authorities on What Do They Know - and as CSV
Guardian's list of Every Quango in Britain
EC Directorate-General “Internal Market and Services" List of UK public bodies bound by EU procurement legislation (suggested by Jose L. Marin on 2010-01-10).
According to Jose L. Marin: "Euroalert is going to contribute with its 3334 list of UK bodies that have published contracts in EU since 2008."
CIPFA codes (suggested by Chris Taggart). Requested by Chis Taggart on 2010-01-28.
List of Non-departmental public bodies from Cabinet Office (in PDF)
List of [UK Public bodies that have issued contract announcements above thresholds in Official Journal of the European Union] (http://euroalert.net/en/help_tenders_opendata_contributions_authorities.aspx#CA-uk) between April 2008 and 28th January 2010 from Euroalert.net
UK Crown bodies (subject to Crown copyright) as suggested by David Pidsley
Local authorities (and similar administative areas like counties, parishes etc.) are listed in Ordnance Survey's OpenData e.g. http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/7000000000038339 (Licence: http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/docs/licences/os-opendata-licence.pdf )
Local authorities at openlylocal.com