The government’s ‘bonfire of the quangos’ has been badly managed and will not achieve the intended savings, a committee of MPs has found. In a report, the Public Administration Committee says there was no ‘meaningful consultation’ on plans to reduce the number of non-departmental public bodies, and tests used to identify which quangos should go were not applied in a uniform manner. A number of housing bodies are to be axed as a result of the government cull, including social housing regulator the TSA, and the Audit Commission. The select committee report says legislation to enact the plans has been badly drafted, and is being ‘significantly re-written’ in the House of Lords. It suggests the government may struggle to implement the changes it has set out because of their complexity. Read more on Inside Housing.
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