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Most of us have views about the official busybodies working in the background that seem to do very little but cost a fortune to run. I refer, of course, to the huge number of quangos - quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations - we have in this country. It turns out that there are over 530 of these bodies.
The good news is that The Telegraph this morning announces the government are about to scrap no less than 177 quangos with another 94 being considered for scrapping. Some will be merged and others will be privatised. Though there will be some job losses, billions of pounds each year will be saved. The extent of the cuts will surprise many, though when one works through the detailed list of these quangos, one wonders why some of them were set up in the first place.
Other newspapers report the good news that the government is not only to rule out a council tax revaluation until at least 2015, but curtail the powers of council tax inspectors who under Labour’s rule have been allowed to snoop on householders and assemble an extraordinary database of the 25 million homes in England and Wales.
This database logs the numbers of bedrooms, bathrooms, conservatories, swimming pools, balconies, etc. Even whether the homes have sea or other views.
Some quangos and council spies we can all do without, so full marks to the coalition for carrying out their promise to deal with them!
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Most of us have views about the official busybodies working in the background that seem to do very little but cost a fortune to run. I refer, of course, to the huge number of quangos - quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations - we have in this country. It turns out that there are over 530 of these bodies.
The good news is that The Telegraph this morning announces the government are about to scrap no less than 177 quangos with another 94 being considered for scrapping. Some will be merged and others will be privatised. Though there will be some job losses, billions of pounds each year will be saved. The extent of the cuts will surprise many, though when one works through the detailed list of these quangos, one wonders why some of them were set up in the first place.
Other newspapers report the good news that the government is not only to rule out a council tax revaluation until at least 2015, but curtail the powers of council tax inspectors who under Labour’s rule have been allowed to snoop on householders and assemble an extraordinary database of the 25 million homes in England and Wales.
This database logs the numbers of bedrooms, bathrooms, conservatories, swimming pools, balconies, etc. Even whether the homes have sea or other views.
Some quangos and council spies we can all do without, so full marks to the coalition for carrying out their promise to deal with them!
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