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 |  Subject: Non-departmental public body  Sat May 07, 2011 10:55 am | |
| In the United Kingdom, a non-departmental public body (NDPB)—often referred to as a quango—is a classification applied by the Cabinet Office, Treasury, Scottish Government and Northern Ireland Executive to certain types of public bodies. They are not an integral part of any government department and carry out their work at arm's length from Ministers, although Ministers are ultimately responsible to Parliament for the activities of bodies sponsored by their department. The term includes the four types of NDPB (executive, advisory, tribunal and Independent Monitoring Boards) but excludes public corporations, National Health Service (NHS) bodies and public broadcasting authorities (BBC and S4C).[1][2] In 2010 the UK's Conservative-Liberal coalition published a review of NDPBs recommending closure or merger of nearly two hundred bodies, and the transfer of others to the private sector.[3] This process is colloquially termed the "bonfire of the quangos".[4] Liquid EPDMbinary options trading | |
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