quango

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The meeting follows the government abolishing NHS England, the world's biggest quango - short for a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation - last week.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2025

The government has already announced plans to fold another quango, the Payments Systems Regulator, into the Financial Conduct Authority.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2025

The deal between government and the Canal and River Trust is “astonishingly far sighted,” says Simon Thurley, the head of English Heritage, a quango that is undergoing its own separation from Whitehall.

From Economist • Dec. 17, 2014

However, early plans to involve the Shareholder Executive investment quango in a rescue of UK Coal were ultimately ditched.

From The Guardian • Jul. 9, 2013

The quango is already responsible for taxpayer holdings in such businesses as Royal Mail, Channel 4, Eurostar and the Royal Mint.

From The Guardian • Jul. 9, 2013