QUANGOS swallowed up £376billion of taxpayer cash in a year, a shock report has found.
Britain’s 438 publicly funded bodies, with half a million staff, accounted for a third of government spending last year, the TaxPayers’ Alliance found.
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NHS England — which PM Sir Keir Starmer has promised to abolish — got £175billion in 2023-24.
The Education and Skills Funding Agency ate up £72.3billion.
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport sponsors the most, at 41.
Former Labour PM Sir Tony Blair launched the most, 91 in ten years.
Sir Keir has previously vowed to slash the number of bodies whose bureaucracy is hampering his growth mission.
This year he took aim at a “cottage industry of checkers and blockers slowing down delivery for working people”.
Reform deputy leader Richard Tice said: “The Government is spending more on opaque quangos than on health, defence, transport and education.”
The TaxPayers’ Alliance said: “The combined might of this bureaucracy dwarfs that of any single government department.
“Yet this ministry of quangos remains unelected and largely unaccountable to the public footing the bill.”
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