Simon Hoare sets out plans for inquiry into arm’s-length bodies amid concerns over accountability
UK arm’s-length bodies lack accountability and some have become a “law unto themselves”, the new chair of parliament’s public administration committee has warned, as he set out plans for an inquiry into scores of quangos. Conservative MP and former minister Simon Hoare told the Financial Times that the House of Commons public administration and constitutional affairs committee would examine NHS England, Highways England and other bodies that operate outside direct ministerial control.
Hoare said successive Tory and Labour governments had intended to outsource responsibility for key areas of policy, regulation and delivery by creating these bodies, which report into sponsoring Whitehall departments but tend to enjoy a greater degree of independence from government control.
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