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Debate between Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton and Nick Hurd
Wednesday 7th September 2011

(13 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton Portrait Mark Lancaster (Milton Keynes North) (Con)
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3. What steps he plans to take to put in place a system of regular review of remaining public bodies following the implementation of the provisions of the Public Bodies Bill.

Nick Hurd Portrait The Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office (Mr Nick Hurd)
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The Government are committed to reviewing non-departmental public bodies every three years. The reviews will provide a much needed, robust challenge for the continuing need of individual bodies and ensure that the body is complying with recognised principles of good corporate governance.

Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton Portrait Mark Lancaster
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Will the Minister remind the House how much money he anticipates will be saved as a result of the Bill? Given the spending on so many quangos, much of which is so wasteful, are we not being slightly modest in our ambitions? Is there not even greater scope in future years to save yet more money?

Nick Hurd Portrait Mr Hurd
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My hon. Friend is entirely right—he should be nudging us to be more ambitious. We have placed on record what we think is a conservative estimate of cumulative administrative savings from reforms already identified of at least £2.6 billion over the spending review period, but we expect that to be a start rather than a finish.