Labour’s ‘Bonfire of Quangos’ Lasts Three Days As New ‘Race and Disability’ Body Created – Guido Fawkes

Labour’s ‘Bonfire of Quangos’ Lasts Three Days As New ‘Race and Disability’ Body Created

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Labour has been making plenty of noise about cutting back the bloated state. Excited briefings that Pat McFadden had written to every department demanding they justify the existence of hundreds of arms-length bodies led to headlines breathlessly reporting that quangos would be cuts, merged, or have their power handed back to ministers. That lofty promises barely lasted a few days…

Labour has now announced plans to create a brand-new equal pay quango, focused on race and disability. The government is now seeking views on the formation of an ‘equal pay regulatory and enforcement unit’ designed to offer “oversight” and “support” for equal pay claims, with the help of trade unions brought into the mix. Equalities Minister Seema Malhotra declared the move essential to “maximise individual opportunity” and ensure “the best person gets the job.” That means that since taking office Labour has created 28 new quangos and scrapped only two. Quite the ‘bonfire’…

UPDATE: Add another – the government says Great British Railways is almost fully approved as an arm’s length body.

Read the full list of Labour-created quangos below:

1. Regulatory Innovation Office
2. National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority
3. Great British Energy
4. Mission Control
5. National Energy System Operator
6. Solar Taskforce
7. Border Security Command
8. Jet Zero Taskforce
9. British Infrastructure Taskforce
10. Creative Industries Taskforce
11. Circular Economy Taskforce
12. Tree Planting Taskforce
13. Child Poverty Taskforce
14. Flooding Resilience Taskforce
15. Motor Insurance Taskforce
16. New Towns Taskforce
17. Onshore Wind Industry Taskforce
18. Skills England
19. Industrial Strategy Council
20. Passenger Standards Authority
21. National Jobs and Careers
22. Ethics and Integrity Commissioner
23. House of Commons Modernisation Committee
24. School Support Staff Negotiating Body
25. Independent Football Regulator
26. Fair Work Agency
27. Defence Innovation Agency
28. Equal Pay Regulatory and Enforcement Unit