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UK Government to Review Justification for All Quangos

UK Government to Review Justification for All Quangos

The Cabinet Office has initiated a comprehensive review of all quangos, requesting government departments to provide justification for their existence. This is an important step toward a more rigorous and strengthened scrutiny of these quasi-public, yet private, actors. It presumes that a significant number of them could be unnecessary. The...

UK Government to Scrutinize Quangos, Demanding Justification for Existence

UK Government to Scrutinize Quangos, Demanding Justification for Existence

The Cabinet Office is currently conducting a comprehensive spending review of all government funded quangos. Each agency now has to prove it deserves to exist or be eliminated. This step represents a bold step towards ensuring defence public spending is far more streamlined and accountable across the UK’s semi-public bodies....