Comments on: No bonfire from Cameron on quango reform http://blogs.channel4.com/snowblog/2009/07/06/no-bonfire-from-cameron-on-quango-reform/ Just another Channel 4 Blogs weblog Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:07:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Blog Editor http://blogs.channel4.com/snowblog/2009/07/06/no-bonfire-from-cameron-on-quango-reform/comment-page-1/#comment-14052 Blog Editor Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:23:17 +0000 http://blogs.channel4.com/snowblog/?p=1782#comment-14052 Reform's director sets out some of his ideas in this article in today's Times: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6643957.ece Reform’s director sets out some of his ideas in this article in today’s Times:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6643957.ece

]]> By: Kris Jones http://blogs.channel4.com/snowblog/2009/07/06/no-bonfire-from-cameron-on-quango-reform/comment-page-1/#comment-14047 Kris Jones Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:53:28 +0000 http://blogs.channel4.com/snowblog/?p=1782#comment-14047 I can't think of an election where Tory politicians haven't promised to cut the number of quangos. In truth, the numbers usually rise. Ministers tend to want committees of the great and the good to advise them on policy and don't seem to realise that such committees are in fact advisory Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs - the official and preferred term for quangos). One reform that's been mentioned, taking away OFCOM's policy-making functions, doesn't save anything. It just means the function will pass back to the Departments for Culture and Business and Enterprise. I can’t think of an election where Tory politicians haven’t promised to cut the number of quangos. In truth, the numbers usually rise. Ministers tend to want committees of the great and the good to advise them on policy and don’t seem to realise that such committees are in fact advisory Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs – the official and preferred term for quangos).

One reform that’s been mentioned, taking away OFCOM’s policy-making functions, doesn’t save anything. It just means the function will pass back to the Departments for Culture and Business and Enterprise.

]]> By: Tom http://blogs.channel4.com/snowblog/2009/07/06/no-bonfire-from-cameron-on-quango-reform/comment-page-1/#comment-14044 Tom Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:30:40 +0000 http://blogs.channel4.com/snowblog/?p=1782#comment-14044 Where can I find Reform's list of 'cullable quangos'? Where can I find Reform’s list of ‘cullable quangos’?

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