How To Use Quango In A Sentence
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We don't need another quango or committee to get in the way between voters and MPs.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, government ministers, the devolved assemblies, local authorities, quangos and all public bodies will be subject to the Convention.
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Cabinet sub-committees, bureaucratic sub-committees, commissions, boards and quangos provide the channels for processing corporatist interest intermediation.
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This will not be just another quango.
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Mr Neyroud, 60, the former police chief in Thames Valley, has been head of the quango since 2006 and recently boasted of cutting a £71 million bill for management consultants that he inherited from previous organisations.
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Caroline Spelman's keynote speech as environment secretary got its biggest claps for pledges to protect rural services (her beat) and declaring she had cut more than one-third of the 90 quangos she inherited.
Have the Conservatives gone from green to blue?
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The government appoints hundreds of people to voluntary bodies, quangos and committees of all kinds.
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Sir, How many quangos does it take to publish a poem?
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He has now written to the Learning and Skills Council, the government quango responsible for over-16s education, to ask them to look at the anomaly.
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The word among property agents is that buildings are attracting just as much interest from government back offices and quangos as banks and fund managers.
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How will this new quango identify these people?
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Prince Charles is poised to extend his influence over the skyline with an offer to arbitrate Britain's most significant planning applications, a role previously executed by a quango that had its funding axed in the comprehensive spending review.
Prince Charles offers to take on key architectural planning role
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A propos of QUANGOs, there are other elements of Government which are surely otiose.
Another Dreary Socialist Programme
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His charities are heavily reliant on taxpayers' money from quangos which either face imminent abolition or huge reductions in their own budgets.
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One broadband company source said the plans had not been thought through and would require a new quango.
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Which pointless government departments and cosy quangos would he close?
The Sun
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It is as if they have been designed by a particularly obnoxious quango.
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He sits on many influential health forums, quangos and charities, and donated £5,000 to the Labour Party last year.
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Meanwhile, government bodies, quangos and initiatives are constantly being rebranded.
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At the same time, a new beefed-up universities quango will take on a far stronger supervisory role, and academic leaders fear this will lead to ministers being able to order them around.
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Next month's Budget will outline a series of cutbacks in spending departments and quangos designed to save tens of billions of pounds over the next few years.
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I would like it to be reflected in disbanding quangos, getting rid of half the local council staff who appear to have forgotten they work for us, and the rest of the ‘non jobs’ that have appeared (climate change officer for Nottingham City Council!!!
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New-style council cabinets work in collusion with unelected quangos to increasingly control spending.
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- we resent being asked to do something for nothing to keep society together, while we see the quangocracies, kleptocracies, politicos, council officers, and banksters raking in the loot on all sides
The Guardian World News
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Yet even modest cuts provoke squeals of outrage from Britain's vast quangocracy and public sector.
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Let us judge whether people are fit to represent us, not these unelected, unaccountable standards quangos, committees and commissioners.
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It's one of those expensive quangos deemed essential to public safety.
The Sun
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The true scandal - is that ministers appoint these people [quangocrats], give them considerable powers, and yet it seems that ministers are completely unaccountable for what they do once they have been appointed.
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Powers have been transferred to a wide variety of new quangos.
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Despite ministerial promises of rich pickings and public support from various quangos, it appears that only a few scraps will be handed out to Scottish firms.
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Yet one quango chief picked up 50,000 this year.
The Sun
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We have come to a pretty pass when Scotland's chief quango is pilloried, just because it has forgotten to apply for £32m due to it (or, rather, to the Scottish public) from the European Union.
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We cannot understand why the quangocracy has ignored abundant evidence showing that the outcomes of high-quality research are impossible to predict.
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The expensive new quango will cop all the blame.
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Those of us who care about the environment but don't like the quangocracy it has spawned are feeling a bit stuck.
Times, Sunday Times
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Councils, health boards and quangos all offer the promise of secure employment and - increasingly importantly - guaranteed pension deals.
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Finally it also makes it far harder for quangos and lobbyists to influence government policy when any legislation can be easily derailed and brought to a popular vote.
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The expensive new quango will cop all the blame.
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I believe red tape, bureaucracy, regulations, inspectorates, commissions, quangos, ‘czars’, ‘units’ and ‘targets’ came to help and protect us, but now we need protection from them.
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Scottish Natural Heritage is facing a triple whammy of objections which are to be lodged with the Scottish parliament calling for an investigation into the activities of the conservation quango.
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The expensive new quango will cop all the blame.
Times, Sunday Times
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Time to throw another quango on the bonfire.
The Sun
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Spin and hype and what's the odds that yet another bloody unelected quango gets set up to "oversee" the 70 million budget.
Archive 2008-01-01
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It's one of those expensive quangos deemed essential to public safety.
The Sun
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The report also found quango bosses moving from one job to another.
The Sun
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But his quango is sure to spark uproar with its daft demands today.
The Sun
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The quango used premium materials to resurface a milelong driveway at a cost of 2m.
Times, Sunday Times
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When the coalition government came to power last year it promised a spectacular bonfire of the quangos.
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Bosses of quangos with six-figure salaries and senior civil servants will also be hit.
The Sun
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They should set up another quango so people like me can ring up and moan about the number of quangos we have.
The Sun
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Perhaps the At Large Membership study, which has a remit to widen public participation in the Net name quango, will conclude that this is best served not by elections but by spontaneous Soviet-style displays of jollification, instead.
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The cut in top salary is one of the most stark examples of pay restraint seen in the quangocracy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Britain's public services, civil service and quangocracies are stuffed to the rafters with left-wing, politically-correct placemen like Blair who have tied their colours to the Labour Party's mast far too tightly for their own good.
Telegraph Blogs
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If he closes only half the quangos, then statistically, although he'll half upset both quango likers and haters, he stands the best chance of maximising votes — simple!
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Last summer the culture secretary announced swingeing cuts and closures among the 55 public bodies that fall under the remit of the DCMS – which include the Arts Council, Sport England and the British Library – as part of a so-called "bonfire of the quangos".
Jeremy Hunt's UK Film Council plan criticised by audit office
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He can flit from populist argument to high brow abstraction and then back into quango-speak and then consultancy jargon with amazing felicity.
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The government funded quango's, sorry the booze charities funded by HM Govt. will looby the assorted cuntmonkeys.
Paul Flynn MP libel case losing MP misses the point on beer taxes.
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The new system operates as a quango and is therefore undemocratic.
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Appointments to non-departmental bodies like quangos are subject to the scrutiny of the Public Appointments Commission.
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It was in quangos and organizations outside the direct control of the government that women activists were most successful in struggling for better economic and political opportunities.
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Unless we devolve powers to county level and abolish the quangos, we will fail to energise local government to the challenges of the 21st century.
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Elected assemblies will draw their powers mainly from central government, its agencies and quangos not from local government.
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Some departments and quangos have already begun redundancy programmes where areas are being wound down.
Times, Sunday Times
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IT'S good news the Government is cutting quangos but why only a third of them?
The Sun
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And health provision is controlled by Swindon's primary care trust an unelected quango with councillors confined to an advisory role.
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It is surely unique in Britain for a failed Conservative candidate to be chairman of not one but two quangos.
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Buying Scottish" is one way to go about fighting our own corner but another bonfire of the quangos and further streamlining from the SNP would be welcome.
Working 9 to 5
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More to the point; everything else public sector is like this: Education, Health, Social Services all has the same problems with minor variations, and it’s being loaded into the private sector as well via various quangocracies.
Gary Newlove « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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The process has been taking place for some time with the growth of bureaucracy in national and local governments, plus quangos and large areas of administration like the European Union.
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More than 100 mandarins and quango bosses enjoyed payouts of at least 10,000 last year.
The Sun
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Still he is just part of the problem, as regulation is also called for by the state Quango industry offake charities, that is funded by the state - in short extorted from you by tax:
Whilst the economy go's to hell, Labour's best is smaller wine glasses.
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She gave her time unstintingly to numerous worthy causes, quangos and organisations.
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To solve the growing problems, the thrusting entrepreneurs who run the strategic rail authority, a wholly appointed quango, had a momentous idea.
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Some opened wholefood co-ops in hippy havens, before tragically becoming Calderdale Labour Council Leaders and finally deputy chairman of quango the Countryside Agency, a role for which she would appear to have few qualifications beyond knowing one end of a mung bean from the other, and doubtless a knowledge of the best magic mushroom fields in the Pennines.
Pointy Heads
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Her salary compared poorly, in most cases, with those of other senior administrators in Scotland's quangos and arts bodies.
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There has been a 40 per cent increase in quango bosses on over 150,000.
The Sun
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The money would presumably go to a large centralised pot, doled out at government or quango discretion.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their frustrations and ire were directed at a dithering Government and bungling quangos, not those who promote the sport in this country.
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He can flit from populist argument to high brow abstraction and then back into quango-speak and then consultancy jargon with amazing felicity.
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Yet one quango chief picked up 50,000 this year.
The Sun
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Local authorities, health boards and quangos will also be expected to merge their administrative wings, to reduce duplication.
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The commissioner for public appointments, who will take over the job of monitoring quango and public sector posts from the previous UK administrator, will cost £413,830.
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The SDLP's Mark Durkin denounced one quango as "faceless. toothless and spineless".
Sketch: Quangos scorched as Buck Passing Council goes up in flames
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Time to throw another quango on the bonfire.
The Sun
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Council sources admitted the chief executive is ‘regularly approached’ about top jobs by councils, quangos and other bodies across the country.
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One quango boss made 12 trips abroad during two years in which she claimed 70,000 in expenses.
Times, Sunday Times
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Growing evidence shows that a government quango fixed the exam results to lower students' grades.
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The American debate contrasts favourably with the cavalier way such issues in Britain have been relegated to a quango and the whim of an elderly bluestocking baroness.
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Of course we are all against unnecessary regulation and superfluous quangos.
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