http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...t-2036175.html

ABOLISHED

ARTS

*UK Film Council
*Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
*Advisory Council on Libraries
*Legal Deposit Advisory Panel
*Advisory Committee on Historic Wreck S ites

HEALTH

*Health Protection Agency (HPA)
*National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA)
*National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse
*Alcohol Education and Research Council
*Appointments Commission (CQC)
*Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (by end of this Parliament)
*Human Tissue Authority
*Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence (to be made a self-funding body by charging a levy on regulators)
*NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement

EDUCATION

*General Teaching Council
*Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency
*British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA)

BUSINESS AND ECONOMY

*All eight regional Government Offices: South-West, South-East, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, North-West, Yorkshire & the Humber and North-East
*Eight out of the nine regional development agencies (the exception being London) and some of their local subsidiaries: Advantage West Midlands, East Midlands Development Agency, Yorkshire Forward, South-West Regional Development Agency, South-East England Development Agency, East of England Development Agency, North-West Regional Development Agency, One North-East
*Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property policy (SABIP)
*SITPRO (Simplifying International Trade)
*Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Advisory Body (WAB)
*British Shipbuilders Corporation
*UfI/Learndirect
*Learning & Skills Improvement Service
*Institute for Learning
*Standards and Verification UK
*IiP UK
*Hearing Aid Council
*Investors in People UK

HOME OFFICE

*National Policing Improvement Agency

ENVIRONMENT

*Sustainable Development Commission (funding withdrawn)
*Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution
*Agricultural Wages Board, the 15 Agricultural Wages Committees, the 16 Agricultural Dwelling House Advisory Committees and the Committee on Agricultural Valuation
*Inland Waterways Advisory Council
*The Commons Commissioners
*Infrastructure Planning Commission
*Commission for Rural Communities

MERGED

ARTS AND SPORT

*UK Sport and Sport England
*National Lottery Commission with the Gambling Commission

UNDER THREAT

ARTS

*Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, English Heritage, Heritage Lottery Fund, National Heritage Memorial Fund ? could be merged
*Advisory Committee on National Historic Ships (declassified, functions transferred to another body)
*Theatres Trust (declassified, so can act as an independent statutory advisory body)
*Churches Conservation Trust (could be declassified, pending talks with the Church of England)
*Visit England and Visit Britain (status, role and functions will change)
*Design Council (under review)

BUSINESS

*Local Better Regulation Office
*ACAS (Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service)
*Local Better Regulation Office
*Ofcom (in the short term it is losing its policy making power)

FOOD

*Food Standards Agency (its responsibilities have been much reduced)

ENVIRONMENT

*Carbon Trust (could be merged into new UK Green Investment Bank)

EDUCATION

*Partnership for Schools (school-building)
*Training and Development Agency (was facing the axe, but may now be spared)

SOCIETY

*Children's Commissioner for England ? under review
*Equality and Human Rights Commission ? has been accused of wastefulness by Home Secretary and faces further cuts

There's loads more isn't there? Anyone got a list of Quangos?!!

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=list+of+quangos+in+uk

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?...C1FAJuUg#gid=0

I love the smell of burning Quango. It's certainly a start, plenty more to go though.

ACAS under threat?

The Condems want to bolster ACAS with some actual real powers to fend of strike action that's looming.

I think the point is that there is no need for ACAS to be a quango to do it's work. Indeed, there's no need for it to be centrally funded at all.

Get rid of Ofwat and Ofgem too, they're toothless.

Instead of getting rid of them why not make them useful?

I fail to see why Ofwat and Ofgem functions cannot be carried out by government departments (with respect to setting rules) and by OFT with respect to enforcing them

Its pretty much the only sensible tory policy to get rid of these... Though its a bit ironic when you think about the big society thing as what they are proposing with it is pretty much more of the same but with local busy bodies doing it for free...

interesting, anyone know how much money this will save in years to come?

Does the Potato Council still exist .

I was shocked to read about that Police's "improving policing' some sort of quango. They had a cost of ?0.5bn!!!! p.a 500mil?!?!?! That's an insane amount for what effectively was (it's abolished now) some sort of consulting white/green paper organisation.

Nothing wrong with the odd bonfire of the quangos, most of which are expensive talking shops.

Slightly concerned by the merging of UK Sport and Sport England though. One deals with the whole of the UK and the other only with England (as the names would suggest), so it remains to be seen how they can be successfully integrated.

Easy, its not as if they have to move mountains to do any of their work.

They want something doing in scotland, they talk about that, they want something doing in england, they talk about that.
I dont see how, with no actual physical or legal barriers in its way, why it cant do what ever it is supposed to do effectively.

Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency - the brand-new, very expensive Building this Quango was housed in was directly opposite my room at uni last year

it was very pleasing to see them all packing their desks up and leaving the building, the unnecessary money-suckers.

You are a disgusting little **** aren't you? Political opinion of quangos aside, who takes pleasure in seeing people losing their livelihood?

Because we are paying them for no benefit?

Public services are not jobs clubs.

It's sad when people lose their jobs, but in cases like these, the problems started with employing them unnecessarily, the loss of the job is inevitable when started from such a shaky basis.

Their livelihood was a bunch of unsustainable bull. Years ago my girlfriend used to work for DEFRA, which, let's face it, can make an argument for its existence.

I visited the building in Smith Square quite often and was never amazed to see the amount of laziness and nothingness going on there. Paper fights, people chilling for hours with coffee as if they were next to a pool in Lindos. Many times my girlfriend who was contracted to work 8 hours a day didn't even go in, came home early or took a week holiday without it being mark down as her official holiday allowance. It happened all the time and with many people there.
She played water polo with her supervisor who in return padded her time-sheet every time the team won.

Now imagine some useless quango such as the Qualifications and Curriculum DA and what goes on there from day to day.

I hope these people find some useful and meaningful work soon. We don't need them on the dole.

Who is to say there is no benefit? Do you know the individual facts for each quango? I reject these sweeping statements.

As I've touched upon in older threads - even keeping people in jobs that are marginally financially productive is a good thing.

Yes, it is sad. Good of you to give the human cost the recognition it deserves. :-)

Not with the size of our current deficit and debt it isn't...

Except I put the blame where it belongs, on the people that gave the false hope by creating a non-job in the first place, rather than on the people who correctly end it.

Putting people in marginally useful or not useful job prevents them developing alternative skills that are more useful or more productive. When the inevitable comes, it's then more painful. That's no way to treat people.

This always struck me as "a good thing" in that it helped fund movies and thus allowing the UK's film industry to grow - which it has substantially over the last decade.

Never could work out the actual difference between this and the NIHR - especially so as both need the DOH to sign off their contracts.

Why on earth should this be under threat?? It provides a hugely valuable regulatory service.

What did this do that NHS Innovations doesn't?? I didn't even know that it existed - makes sense to nuke it.

Having dealt with these guys I can confidently call them muppets.


Always seemed like a good idea to me...


I assume this is because CEDR has become so successful?


What? So who do you complain to now?


I assume environmental health teams will take over much of their job? I think a separate agency makes sense so would disagree with this move..

Why cant the wider NHS enforce the stuff, and the DOH set the rules?
OFT can handle the complaints, government department can do the rule setting

Because the main users of the HTA are the NHS - putting it in a separate body gives it independence.

So, I think a radio presenter has said something offensive and the office of fair trading investigates? Not a natural fit for the OFT don't you think?

Who said I support that being investigated? Let companies self regulate

No mention of OfQuack/CNHC?

Agreed. Absolutely lovely building, and they even got their logo printed on the glass doors, but i cannot fathom how they could justify spending so much money to build pretty offices in coventry. I hope a good business gets that building.

Of much more concern are the schools in and around coventry which are under threat. I am seriously concerned about this governments hand fisted approach to cost saving. The more time goes by the more it looks like they are trying to rival Thatcher in terms of destroying working society.

What about Investors In people? We have IIP and some contracts that we go in for we would not get a look in without IIP. Guess were going to have to look at something else.

The question is why though? If IIP is distorting the market, doesn't that say something?

Unlikely to work.