The Government recently announced massive cuts in the number of quangos The Independent and the BBC report. Possibly a good thing given that there are a lot of them (almost 1,200 as of mid 2008) and they cost a lot (£64 billion if you trust the Taxpayers Alliance).
I will leave it up to you to decide whether this is going to harm the services these quangos have been providing, the question I find interesting is;
How does this fit into "The Big Society"?
