| It's a start. You listenin', DC?? |
One hundred and seventy-seven taxpayer-funded bodies are to be abolished under Coalition plans seen by The Daily Telegraph.
| Are they allowed to do that? I thought quangos, once created, existed until the universe cooled at the ultimate expansion point... or until it contracted to cause the next Big Bang, whichever it decided was more amusing. At least that's how it seemed on "Yes, Prime Minister". |
A further 94 are still under threat of being scrapped, four will be privatised and 129 will be merged, according to a Cabinet Office list compiled this week, while 350 other bodies have won a reprieve.
| On second thought, they're all staffed by people the Labour party wanted to pay off. It's definitely time for them to go. |
The list discloses for the first time the extent of David Camerons plans for the "bonfire of the quangos", designed to save the taxpayer billions of pounds. Thousands of jobs will go as part of the reforms.
The biggest cuts concern the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs with more than 50 bodies to be abolished, | Are those the busybodies who specify the exact dimensions that veggies must reach to be sold? |
and the Department of Health, where about 30 bodies will be cut or have their functions transferred back to the department.
These include the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, the Health Protection Agency and the Commission for Rural Communities.
As already announced, the Audit Commission and UK Film Council will be scrapped along with eight regional development agencies, the list shows. The Commission for Integrated Transport, the School Food Trust and the Sustainable Development Commission are to be abolished.
The BBC World Service, the British Council and the Environment Agency are among the 94 publicly funded bodies whose fate has yet to be decided. |
