Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Gregory Campbell Excerpts
Wednesday 5th September 2012

(12 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Chloe Smith Portrait Miss Smith
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The Department of Health is reducing the number of quangos, not increasing them.

Gregory Campbell Portrait Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry) (DUP)
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On behalf of my party, may I congratulate the hon. Lady on being appointed to her new position?

Every Government and every Parliament have promised to do what her Government have promised to do on non-departmental public bodies. Will she abide by the judgment of the people in two years’ time, close to the end of this Parliament, in respect of how many of these NDPBs have fallen by the wayside?

Chloe Smith Portrait Miss Smith
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The hon. Gentleman raises a vital point. More than half the quangos in government will be reformed. There will be no return to the old ways of working. He is right, too, that we need to be accountable in this process, which is why we are instituting triennial reviews and other measures in order to ensure we keep on this path.