QUANGO GOGO

Interesting news item yesterday regarding Government policy towards QUANGOs

Business Secretary Vince Cable said:

“We are absolutely committed to reducing the number and cost of quangos that we no longer need. I have already said that I want to reduce the number of these bodies by a third and we’ve achieved a lot in a short space of time. This is the latest phase of that work.

”By bringing these functions back into Government, we make their activities more accountable and can reduce the considerable administrative costs that they place on the taxpayer.”

Food for thought as regards matters Broadband, where there is yet to be proper need identification for the creation of any new QUANGOs until the market has opportunity to deliver and the actual scale and scope of Taxpayer intervention established.

Particularly in light of the pushing back of the 2Mbps USC for the Final Third of mainly rural communities to 2014/15 from the original 2012 target, as announced by Jeremy Hunt last Thursday.

Also posted on www.fibrestream.co.uk