SIMON HOARE MP: SOME UK QUANGOS ARE A LAW UNTO THEMSELVES

"Commons committee chair sets out plans for inquiry into arm’s-length bodies amid concerns over accountability"

 

Financial Times: 22nd November 2024: FT report that the House of Commons public administration and constitutional affairs committee plans to launch inquiry into arm's length bodies [also know as ALBs or quangos] 

"Conservative MP and former minister Simon Hoare told the Financial Times that the House of Commons public administration and constitutional affairs committee would examine NHS England, Highways England and other bodies that operate outside direct ministerial control. The inquiry would look at which bodies “are broken” and “which either require total scrapping or rebuilding from scratch”, said Hoare, warning that swaths of daily life had been “passported off to bodies which are not accountable either through the ballot box or the despatch box”. He added: “At the moment, I think many of them are . . . almost a law unto themselves . . ." 

"Britons should be “alarmed by the lack of accountability and transparency” of many ALBs and the fact ministers “cannot direct” their activities"

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