Quangos ‘to be more accountable’
Author: The Independent |
A Conservative Government would make quangos more democratically accountable, David Cameron announced today as he unveiled a review of publicly-funded independent bodies to determine which should be scrapped or slimmed down.
Mr Cameron said that “in many cases” quangos were getting bigger and bigger and spending increasing amounts of money.
“There are some quangos that have a technical function, inspecting nuclear installations, or they have a transparency function, like the Office for National Statistics, but, in too many cases, these organisations have got bigger and bigger – they spend about £64 billion a year,” he told BBC Breakfast.
“They start having their own communications departments, their own press officers, they start making policy rather than just delivering policy and their bosses are paid vast amounts of money.”