{"id":3879,"date":"2010-10-14T23:17:32","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T22:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3879"},"modified":"2010-10-14T23:18:21","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T22:18:21","slug":"the-cull-of-the-quangos-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3879","title":{"rendered":"The cull of the quangos (4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Coalition Government announced the abolition of 192 public bodies &#8211; so-called quangos &#8211; and the merger of a further 118. You can check out the full list <a href=\"http:\/\/www.direct.gov.uk\/prod_consum_dg\/groups\/dg_digitalassets\/@dg\/@en\/documents\/digitalasset\/dg_191543.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Both the statutory bodies on which I sit &#8211; Consumer Focus and the Communications Consumer Panel &#8211; are to be abolished. This will not happen immediately and I will have to consider what role I should play in helping a smooth transfer of certain functions to the charity Citizens Advice so that the best of their work is maintained in the interests of consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Coalition Government announced the abolition of 192 public bodies &#8211; so-called quangos &#8211; and the merger of a further 118. You can check out the full list here. Both the statutory bodies on which I sit &#8211; Consumer Focus and the Communications Consumer Panel &#8211; are to be abolished. This will not happen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3879"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3882,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions\/3882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}