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皇冠体育app reductions are part of a cumulative 拢30 billion reduction over the Spending Review period through the review of public bodies, departmental reforms and the Spending Review.聽

Mr Maude聽also announced聽tough new rules to restrict the lobbying of government by public-funded bodies. Public bodies will be restricted from carrying out unnecessary or political PR or marketing activity under the new rules.

Francis Maude announced anticipated cumulative administrative savings alone of 拢2.6 billion from public bodies over the Spending Review period. 皇冠体育app minister was responding to a House of Commons Public Administration Select Committee report on public bodies. 皇冠体育app government鈥檚 response, , addresses head-on several misconceptions and inaccuracies in the parliamentary report.

Francis Maude said:

For too long, too many unelected officials have been taking decisions that affect the public and spending billions of pounds of public money. Reform of public bodies is long overdue and our plans will bring about the largest scale changes to the quango landscape in a generation.

People are fed up with a complex system where the ministers they elected could avoid taking responsibility for difficult and tough decisions by hiding behind a chief executive paid more than the Prime Minister. Businesses are fed up of being held up by red tape and bureaucracy.

皇冠体育appre should be a clear presumption that an elected, accountable individual takes responsibility for these activities unless there is a compelling reason for it being carried out by an independent body. So we are converting a number of public bodies into executive agencies precisely to make them democratically accountable through a minister.聽 皇冠体育app Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission is one example.

A secondary but important part of the reforms is to cut waste. Public bodies will help us to achieve 拢2.6 billion of cumulative administrative savings across government and divert public funds to essential frontline services.

皇冠体育app reforms also encourage the Big Society by transferring functions from public bodies to voluntary, charitable and social enterprises.

皇冠体育app Public Bodies Bill will enable the creation of a new Waterways Charity, abolish the Regional Development Agencies, replacing them with local enterprise partnerships which bring together businesses and local authorities, and will strengthen and increase the role of the Citizens Advice Bureaux.

Notes to editors

1. 皇冠体育app proposed reforms aim to reinvigorate the public鈥檚 trust in democracy and also ensure that the Government operates in a more efficient, business-like way.
2. 皇冠体育app government introduced the proposed reforms in Parliament on 14 October 2010.聽 皇冠体育app Public Bodies Bill, which will provide the legislative basis for reform, has since been introduced into the House of Lords. 皇冠体育app Bill recently left Committee in the Lords and will begin Report Stage shortly, progressing into the Commons in due course.
3. 皇冠体育app proposed reforms cover all of government鈥檚 non-departmental public bodies, as well as other bodies such as some non-ministerial departments and some public corporations. Under the reforms, approximately 200 organisations will cease to be public bodies and their functions will either be brought back into government, devolved to local government, moved out of government or abolished altogether.
4. 鈥淪maller Government: Shrinking the Quango State鈥� was published on 7 January 2011 by the Public Administration Select Committee.
5. 皇冠体育app is published today alongside a by the Minister for the Cabinet Office which includes an updated list of reforms. 皇冠体育app government has also published today a to support departments and public bodies in implementing reform and a . You can find all these documents on the .
6. 皇冠体育app savings quoted in the response to the Select Committee are: 1. 拢2.6 billion cumulative administrative savings will flow from public bodies over the Spending Review period 2. 拢11 billion reduction in spend by and through public bodies (including capital and programme expenditure) by 2014-2015. If the savings for each year of the Spending Review are taken into account then a cumulative amount of 拢30 billion will no longer be spent through public bodies through the public bodies review, departmental reforms and the Spending Review.