Quangos are now responsible for almost a third of all government spending, according to the TaxPayers’ Alliance. Some 438 arms-length bodies absorbed £391 billion of taxpayer cash in 2023-24, out of £1.2 trillion state spending overall. Close to half a million pen-pushers are now on the payroll…
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport sponsored 41 quangos last year, more than any other Whitehall department, including the BBC, which took home £5.2 billion. Back in March, Starmer promised a “bonfire of the quangos” and to cut the cost of regulation with what he called an “active government”. Now Reeves insists she wants to slash the number of environment quangos. A reminder: Labour has created 28 new quangos while abolishing just two. Talk about a black hole…
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