Bonfire day for the Quangos! 192 abolished, 289 reformed

1984ReturnsForReal_2

Mr_Mumble wrote: »

Oops, I thought the FT Blogs (I've renamed a couple that are from the blogs rather than FT site) were free to view, though they may require registration. The FT story about the OFT is paywalled, hence the excerpt, the FT did break this story but I've now included a link to the Telegraph rehash.

With The Times and FT now paywalling its not easy to give paupers what they want without breaking the TOS.

Cheers.


I still cant find a full list anywhere & the Cabinet Office link is still down.


Maybe they have made their IT guys redundant?

Blacklight

Looks like they shut down the Office for Government Website Bandwidth.

Blacklight

Full list:

http://download.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/ndpb/public-bodies-list.pdf

chewmylegoff

dazeruk wrote: »

We had a e-mail from Gus O'Donnell regarding the Civil Service Compensation Scheme.

Main points are

1) A standard tariff of one month’s salary for every year of pensionable service, limited to 21 months pay for voluntary redundancy (instead of the 15 originally proposed) and 12 months pay for compulsory redundancy. The intention would be to encourage voluntary redundancy to the maximum extent possible so reducing the need for compulsory redundancies. There would also be a three month notice period for voluntary and compulsory redundancies.


2) In order to improve the position for lower paid civil servants, there would now be a floor of £23,000, in terms of the salary on which compensation would be based. In other words, anyone earning less than £23,000 (on a full-time equivalent basis) would be treated, for the purposes of calculating their redundancy payment, as if they were earning that figure.


3) Staff earning more than six times the Private Sector Median Average Earnings (currently £149, 820) would have their salary capped at this figure for the purposes of calculating their redundancy payment.


4) Staff who have reached minimum pension age may be able to have access to an unreduced pension if they depart on voluntary terms.

the audit commission is not part of the civil service though, so presumably they are just entitled to statutory redundancy pay.

daveyjp

The only bonfire will be from all the stationery which is no longer required.

Lots of merging, lots of restructures, lots of new posts for staff.

Savings? We'll never know.

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Looks to me that health & environmental health has took the major hits

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Oooooo & they can now appoint whoever they want to whatever post without recourse.

lemonjelly

1984ReturnsForReal wrote: »

Looks to me that health & environmental health has took the major hits

Quite ridiculous that they've kept the 3 horse racing quango's, but scrapped or merged pretty much all other sports quango's.

No elitism there, or pandering to stereotypes eh?

In addition, a lot of housing related quango's are going. How's that for being on topic?

BenL

chewmylegoff wrote: »

the audit commission is not part of the civil service though, so presumably they are just entitled to statutory redundancy pay.

Although the audit commission were not mentioned directly there was a fella on radio5 this morning advising that some non civil service "departments" for want of a better word have civil service type employment contracts. They may still get the payouts.

1984ReturnsForReal_2

lemonjelly wrote: »

Quite ridiculous that they've kept the 3 horse racing quango's, but scrapped or merged pretty much all other sports quango's.

Boris has got more power out of it....