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Quango
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Quango
Quasi-Autonomous Non-Governmental Organization. An organization, which itself is not part of the government, to which the government has given a large degree of power, as a regulator or in another capacity. A prominent example is the Water Services Regulation Authority, which regulates sewage in the UK, among other things. However, it is not part of the government. The term is most common in the British Isles.
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It named a number of bodies including British Waterways, the Carbon Trust and School Food Trust that should have their funding cut - intended as a starting point for slashing quangos to help reduce public spending in light of the recession.
Anger at pounds 90billion cost of Quangos by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Byline: Alison Kershaw TWO-THIRDS of Britain's education quangos should be scrapped, freeing schools from bureaucracy and saving the taxpayer more than pounds 600m, research suggests today.
Schools quangos 'should be axed' Report calls for cull of costly ... by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Summary: The Conservatives have pledged to cut the number of unelected quangos in "a massive shift in power from bureaucracy to democracy".
Cameron pledges to cut the Quangos by Independent Television News Limited (ITN)
 
 
 
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