Sentences with word «quango»

In July 2009 in a speech to Reform, David Cameron made the unequivocal statement that «we do need to reduce the number of QUANGOs in this country» to increase public accountability and save taxpayers» money.

But the endless creation of new quangos must stop - while existing ones must face greater scrutiny.

From 2001 - 2003, the Audit's then director, Stuart Weir, acted as special adviser to the Public Administration Select Committee during two inquiries which resulted in two significant reports on the «Quango state.

There are currently 481 quangos in the UK, with 192 of them facing the axe.

As ever, when talk arises of swingeing cuts, there are perfectly good quangos which do a good job and provide value for money.

The Authority is a tempting target for quango critics.

Reform means not a new unelected quango, which would be about ducking responsibility for the tough decisions, but greater operational independence for local NHS organisations and NHS clinicians and I want this to be established through the constitution.

The public bodies bill gives government departments the power to abolish quangos and reclaim tasks that were previously outsourced.

In the Commons yesterday the Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt announced reform of quangoes under his department's purview:

A flexible freeze on public sector recruitment, scrapping of centralised IT projects, abolishing ineffective quangoes like the RDAs and market - based reforms of the public sector could all be introduced to start bringing spending under control.

Both would streamline further and higher education quangos into a single body.

That massive disparity can not be fair, and my constituents have also expressed their unhappiness in large numbers about many of the local government funded quangos with questionable track records of productivity and efficiency, and a democratic deficit, when my constituents struggle to make ends meet and pay their council and personal tax bills.»

The Assemblies are on quango death row, but sizeable amounts of taxpayers» money is still being paid to them in subscriptions.

«They want to turn the NHS into one big quango without any prospect of reform.

Speaking at the party conference this morning, Norman Lamb promised deep cuts to health quangos.

We already have too much state funding for the established parties — MPs / MEPs allowances are far too generous and there are numerous «charities» and quangos pushing political agendas, funded by both the British state and the EU.

5.26 pm: The Lib Dems have voted in favour of setting up a happiness quango.

EdTech went on to enjoy significant amounts of thinking and money, which included a new quango called Becta (the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency) to help steer policy into practice.

It appears, then, that a policy - driven quango is exactly what Nurse intends the Society to become.

As digital minister, Vaizey had responsibility for overseeing government quangos Tech City UK and Tech North, as well as rolling broadband out across the country.

At a glance: main spending cuts - # 1.15 bn to go in «discretionary» spending areas across Whitehall - # 1.7 bn saved by stopping projects undertaken by the last government - # 836m to be cut from the government's business department - # 120m savings from a recruitment freeze in the civil service - # 600m cut from quangos - # 320m cut from the Child Trust Fund

But it's certainly not true of the wage bill for the swarm of unaccountable quangos that has infested our country under Labour.

This is despite claims from Francis Maude that last year's quango cull was designed to increase Whitehall responsibility.

Continue reading «Francis Maude MP: Over 100 quangos scrapped.

The coalition have made a good start scrapping useless quangos, but there are two big spending candidates that are still, as far as we are aware, under review.

And at Labour Party Conference, he clamoured for the return of unelected regional quangos and housebuilding targets that proved so damaging to the housing market under Labour in the first place.

The questions followed an investigation by Channel Four News last week which found worrying links between the mayor's quango London and Partners (L&P) and Chinese developers ABP.

Yesterday, the Conservatives claimed the liabilities for the London Olympic project had been passed on to a local quango which has the power to raise council tax.

Likewise, those committees which questioned particular senior civil servants and Quango chiefs may also be fishing in a «men - only» pool.

«It would be foolish to take the profound and irreversible decision to sever any link with a local authority and put their schools at the mercy of a remote, national, democratically unaccountable funding quango,» she said.

Is the Tory party so desperate to re-invent itself that it's forgetting to check what quangos it set up in the 90s?

YouGov's latest poll found that 72 % of the public believe it is wrong for any government to appoint supporters to head Quangos like Ofsted.

Devolving more power to local authorities, elected police chiefs, the public and patients, and abolishing most quangoes

Now in addition there are various quangos or statutory authorities to whom a lawyer must account, each with its own rules and varying breadth of discretion.

«It therefore seems unlikely that a newly established quango, such as an extremism commission, will solve such problems.

Labour has focused on the fact that recent departures from senior quango positions - including the chairs of English Heritage, the Charities Commission and the Arts Council - have all been women.

It follows the recent appointments of Conservative supporters to head the Care Quality Commission, Monitor and Natural England quangos.

Select committees, hopefully free of the malign hand of the whips if new reforms are introduced, should report annually on the contribution of quangos relevant to their areas.

Quangos offer plenty of well - remunerated career routes.

Spend any time at political functions or summer peceptions, particularly in local government, and you will meet friendly, intelligent people who staff quangos you have never heard of.

To pick one example, New Covent Garden has its very own quango.

This is sometimes due to regretful ignorance ofthe part of the journalist but also because the sheer number of quangos means the relationship between many organisations in British political life is so complicated as to be unmappable.

Scrutiny would highlight the good work of the effective quangos and force the poor ones to face up to their failures.

Lansley's plan is to create a healthcare market of new private suppliers being handed NHS contracts by his super Quango, the NHS Board.

If the Partnership for Schools quango was a capable entity it should have been able to say how many schools have reached the critical point of «financial close».

We learnt in yesterday's Sunday Telegraph that Michael Gove had rightly cancelled the bonus of the head of the PFS quango.

And the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission, an important quango, published its annual report, among plenty of other reports and documents.

As Christmas recess begins, government departments and quangos release 424 publications.

While we support the Government's aims to build more houses, democratically accountable councils have been at the forefront of delivering local growth and the creation of a separate, remote quango is unnecessary.