More than 100 quangos have been axed and a further 90 merged into other bodies since the coalition came to power, ministers have said.
That leaves about 800 still to go. What is taking them?
More than 100 quangos have been axed and a further 90 merged into other bodies since the coalition came to power, ministers have said.
That leaves about 800 still to go. What is taking them?
Ahhh .. but how many new quangos have been started in the meantime. I don’t think we’ll ever really see the death of the quango – too many vested interests and far too much money to be made
And how many have been created?
The one exotic animal that’s not endangered, the quango.
But how many useless jobs have been cutbacked?
Our local vast “Connexxions” offices have indeed been closed only to be replaced by a Regional Youth Job Service in the same building probably employing the same people (and having the same piss-poor reputation but I don’t know any youthpeople to ask these days).
On the other hand the previously ever expanding offices of the Regional Development Agency are indeed empty and appear to have been vacated rapidly as though in advance of an invading army; the computers might have been removed but the keyboards and coffee mugs are still there.
Ain’t that the way.
Mnny of these quangoes did, in part useful jobs … but they were & are expensive, & of course, largely unnaccountable.
SO, the useful bits have to be hived off to somewhere, whilst the rest is closed down.
This takes TIME.
Rather take longer & close more, rather than rush it, & get it wrong.
Close the quangoes, yes, but to do a proper job: festina lente
One example, to give you an idea>
There are valuable historical records, relating to the railways, their networks, history, & legal considerations, that were in the care of one of the ex-BR residuary bodies (a quango).
Leaving aside the criminal insanity of the Major privatisation … where should those records go, & in whose care should they be placed?
In the end, most went to the NRM, & a home was found for the rest – and THEN, the quango was closed down.
There, does that help?
A quango’s job may be useful, but the job and the quango should be remembered to be two separate things.