UK CONSIDER ABOLISHING HUNDREDS OF QUANGOS AMID GLOBAL INSTABILITY

Mon 07 April 2025:

Britain said it would consider closing dozens of arms-length government agencies, as it looks to reform the state to make cost savings and improve productivity in what it called “a new era of global instability”.

Britain has over 300 so-called quangos, or agencies and public bodies which are funded by taxpayers but not controlled directly by central government.

“Every quango across government will be reviewed, with a view to close, merge or bring functions back into departments if its continued existence cannot be justified,” the government said in a statement on Monday.

The statement added that in the “new era of global instability”, the government had to “go further and faster in reform”.

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Keir Starmer told his cabinet last month that they should stop “outsourcing” decisions to regulators and quangos and take more responsibility for their own departments.

NHS England was the first to be scrapped, bringing the health service back under the control of ministers, which they said would avoid duplication, bring greater accountability and save money. More quangos could be identified for abolition as early as this week.

As well as his cuts to quangos, the prime minister is urging departments to make greater use of technology such as artificial intelligence tools to reduce spending and streamline decision-making.

Branded merchandise and staff awaydays for civil servants are set to be curbed as part of the government’s crackdown on what it regards as wasteful spending in the civil service, which also included freezing thousands of procurement cards held by officials.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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