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What caught your eye? (Intel investment, Quantum computer, Quango bonfire)
Eweekly 21 Aug 2025
David Manners, components editor ... Steve Bush, technology editor ... Alun Williams, web editor ... The “bonfire of the quangos” has singed the space sector ... .
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Ireland has too many quangos and too many lawyers feeding off its clientelist politics
The Irish Times 02 Aug 2025
READ MORE ... Conor Murray ... Instead policymaking is often outsourced to quangos (quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations) ... If we are over-quangoed we are also over-lawyered in planning and insurance per head of comparable European populations ... .
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SNP 'hypocrisy' row deepens as Scottish Government investment quango hands £18m in grants to arms ...
The Daily Mail 12 Jul 2025
An SNP quango has handed out £18.4 million to defence firms in the past five years, despite ministers claiming the Scottish Government does not fund companies involved in munitions ... Ms Baillie said. ‘These figures expose the SNP’s utter hypocrisy ... .
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Six ‘out of control’ NHS quangos will be abolished or overhauled
The Times/The Sunday Times 07 Jul 2025
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‘What must the world think?’: Edinburgh airport slammed as ‘filthy’ by Scottish quango chief
The Independent 04 Jul 2025
After a negative experience ...
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SNP quango ‘squandered’ £21m of public cash in benefits errors
AOL 02 Jul 2025
A benefits quango created by the SNP government has been accused of “squandering” almost £21 million of public money ... The quango, which employs 4,000 staff and has a budget of £321 million, was ...
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Hundreds of NHS quangos to be scrapped in 10-year health strategy
BBC News 28 Jun 2025
Ministers set to abolish bodies which advocate on behalf of patients and support whistleblowers. .
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Hundreds of NHS quangos to be scrapped
BBC News 28 Jun 2025
Ministers set to abolish bodies which advocate on behalf of patients and support whistleblowers ... .
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'Bonfire of the health quangos': Health secretary Wes Streeting vows to axe NHS groups employing ...
The Daily Mail 28 Jun 2025
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Anger over anti-drugs quango which accepts cash from firms that produce... methadone | Daily Mail Online
The Daily Mail 21 Jun 2025
Analysis by The Mail last year showed methadone had killed more people over a five year period than heroin ... It read ... She said ... ‘The source of this quango’s funding gives rise to legitimate questions over its advice to the SNP government on drugs policy.
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SNP quango ‘promotes surgery to cut size of male breasts’
The Daily Telegraph 15 Jun 2025
The SNP’s public sector is so “bloated” that it includes a quango that promotes male breast-reduction surgery, the Scottish Tory leader has alleged ... The legislation would cut the number of quangos by a ...
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`Quango Cull’ - almost as many State agencies now as in aftermath of financial crash
The Irish Times 11 Jun 2025
A “quango” is typically defined as an organisation to which Government departments have devolved some degree of responsibility, and which are funded by the State.
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