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In what has been called the ‘Bonfire of the Quangos’ the axe has fallen on 192 of these often useless bodies. Another 118 will be merged and 171 ‘substantially’ reformed.
There is much discussion in the papers this morning as to whether or not the cuts, which could result in as many as 10,000 people being put out of work, will actually save the billion pounds annually that the government have forecast.
Maybe there are few savings in the short-term when redundancy and severance costs are taken into account. But isn’t the whole point of getting rid of these quangos is to remove the interference that some unaccountable officials have in our lives?
And, while it is a shame that people will be made redundant because of the cuts, the Cabinet Office Minister is right to say that this move will end the ‘spectacle of unelected quangocrats making decisions that affect millions of lives without scrutiny’.
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In what has been called the ‘Bonfire of the Quangos’ the axe has fallen on 192 of these often useless bodies. Another 118 will be merged and 171 ‘substantially’ reformed.
There is much discussion in the papers this morning as to whether or not the cuts, which could result in as many as 10,000 people being put out of work, will actually save the billion pounds annually that the government have forecast.
Maybe there are few savings in the short-term when redundancy and severance costs are taken into account. But isn’t the whole point of getting rid of these quangos is to remove the interference that some unaccountable officials have in our lives?
And, while it is a shame that people will be made redundant because of the cuts, the Cabinet Office Minister is right to say that this move will end the ‘spectacle of unelected quangocrats making decisions that affect millions of lives without scrutiny’.
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