quango
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Mr Cridland's quango Transport for the North is due to publish its first report soon.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2016
Government officials have been facing questions at a Stormont committee over a failure to properly control a quango which collapsed with debts of £1.5m.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2015
In 1981, a quango, the London Docklands Development Corporation, was set up to shape its future.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 18, 2015
The deal between government and the Canal and River Trust is “astonishingly far sighted,” says Simon Thurley, the head of English Heritage, a quango that is undergoing its own separation from Whitehall.
From Economist ● Dec. 17, 2014
However, early plans to involve the Shareholder Executive investment quango in a rescue of UK Coal were ultimately ditched.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 9, 2013
The 2024 manifesto pledged £50bn a year of savings from government departments and quangos.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2025
Mr O'Connell said the TPA backed the Labour government's review of quangos, and urged more focus on scrapping unnecessary functions and bringing delivery of significant services back under political control.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2025
The source said the review be particularly focused on quangos dealing with policy issues of national importance.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2025
Some of these organisations, known as quangos, could be closed, merged, or have their responsibilities handed over to departments.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2025
A government source said the review had no completion date, and ministers had not set a target for how many quangos, or quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations, they wanted to abolish.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2025
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