| Regional Development
Agencies are among the business-related
quangos that face the axe or other changes
in a government shake-up. A Cabinet
Office announcement on 14 October
confirmed a previous announcement that the
eight agencies will be abolished, with
those functions to be retained transferred
to central or local government and others.
A total of 192 quangos
(quasi-autonomous non-government
organisations) will cease to be public
bodies and their functions will be brought
back into government, devolved to local
government, moved out of government or
abolished altogether
Other business-linked organisations
affected in the shake-up include:
- Competition Commission:
government will consult in the new year
on a merger with the competition
functions of the Office of Fair Trading
- Construction Industry
Training Board: consideration
to be completed by November 2010 of
transferring body and functions to
private sector status
- Copyright Tribunal:
subject to final agreement, jurisdiction
of the tribunal to be transferred into
the Ministry of Justice tribunal service
- UK Commission for Employment
and Skills: a review is to be
completed by the end of the year of the
commission’s core functions and the most
appropriate structure to deliver a
simplified skills landscape.
The government also plans to merge 118
bodies down to 57 and to retain and
substantially reform a further 171. A
total of 380 organisations will be
retained.
LINK:
Cabinet Office announcement |
