You’ve Been Quango’ed
Quasi-autonomous non-government bodies with budgets over £25m
Crown Prosecution Service
prosecutes criminals, decides if criminal
cases should be pursued
£647
Non Ministerial Departments
£32
Highways Agency
manages, maintains and improves
England's roads, provides live traffic
updates
£2,509
Child Support Agency
assesses payments of child
support
£443
Work & Pensions
Pensions Service
pays pensions and provides
information on entitlement
Remploy Ltd
employment for disabled people
Insolvency Service
administers and investigates
bankruptcies
NHS Business Services
Authority
range of NHS services including
security, dental, pensions &
prescriptions
The Information
Centre Central
information for frontline
workers
£40
Health and Social Care
Information Centre
helps local decision makers improve
their health care
NHS Trusts
public sector bodies
that provide services
on behalf of the NHS
£8,490
£4.3 bn
QUANGOS CUTS (approximate)
In existence Under review recently cut
Constitutional Affairs
British Museum
a free national museum of
£42 Audit Commission
history & culture
Museums', Libraries and tracks taxpayers money as it’s spent
by local government
£26
(£1.2bn) £64
UK Film Council
£32 Charity Commission £296 Tribunals Service
supports tribunals £26 develop and promote
Archives Council
improvement & innovation for Arts Council England
London Thames
Gateway Development
regulates charities English Heritage
steward of over 400 £137
the UK film industry museums, libraries and archives promotes and funds the arts Corporation
redeveloping two areas of NE
£44
significant historical sites
£424 London
Planning Inspectorate
Culture Media & Sport £45
handles planning appeals & listed
Serious Fraud Office National Heritage
£45 serious or complex frauds Memorial Fund
buildings
Homes & Comunities Agency (HCA)
over £1m National Archive Preserves & curates £317 Visit Britain national housing and regeneration
HM Courts Service
£35 £51 promote & develop the
(£1.6bn) Communities & Local Gov
guides the government on objects of importance to
UK as a tourist
£4,555
manages the courts information management and national heritage
destination
preserves historical documents
£864
British Library
£236
Olympic Delivery Authority
developing the infrastructure and
venues of the 2012 olympics
(£2.5bn)
Revenue & Customs
Prosecutions Office CapacityBuilders UK
Legal Services
Commission
national library of the UK,
contains all books £107
tackles cases of tax fraud, money
laundering and evasion £36 advice and support for
volunteer, community & not- £130 free legal advice &
representation for those
published in the UK
£284
BBC
public service
UK Sport
distributes Lottery
Sport England
building a community sport English Partnerships
for-profit social avtitivity
who cannot afford it broadcasting funding for sports and
governs drug testing
£67 £113 system, nuturing new
sports talent, and increase
now part of the Homes &
Communities Agency
Transport
for athletes sport uptake
National Gallery
free gallery £26 £261
UK Atomic Energy
(£2.3bn) Authority £333 Office of Communications,
£38
National Museum of Science
and Industry (London)
Housing Corporation
funds new affordable homes &
£81
manages nuclear sites (OFCOM) four british museums: science, national regulates housing associations
Natural History Museum
£45
regulates TV, radio, landlines and railway, national media, locomotion
mobiles & their airwaves specialising in research, taxonomy, Natural Enviroment
identification & classification
£1,889
Driver and Vehicle Research Council
£31 Licensing Agency (DVLA)
tracks drivers & vehicles, issues driving
Tate Gallery £42
Victoria & Albert Museum
national museum of decorative
funds research into natural
world issues like climate
Trade & Industry £46
Defence
licenses and sells private plates change, biodiversity etc
four galleries housing the arts and design
Defence Medical, Education
Advisory, Conciliation UK's national collection of art
£354 and Training Agency
UK Trade and Investment
£88 £45
and Arbitration Service
resolves and minimises disputes medical support for Britain's armed £148
(£5.9bn)
helps UK companies succeed
(£14.9bn)
between employees and their forces including training military doctors
overseas, encourages foreign
employers and medics
companies to partner with the UK
Economic and Social
Research Council
Biotechnology and
£135
postgraduate funding for
Office of Fair Trading
(OFT)
research into social and
economic domains like business
£394
Biological Sciences
Research Council
Met Office
national weather service £63
Office for National £61 economic regulator making sure
markets are fair and free from
and voluntary organisations supports several research
institutes & departments Service Children’s
Statistics
£166 scams & cartels
£82 Education
Regional
collection and publication of educating the children of
UK statistics, national & local defence personnel around the
Ministry of Defence Police and
Research
world
Nuclear Decommissioning
Science & Technology
Facilities Councils
Guarding Agency
supplies police and guards to the £285 Defence Communication
Authority
clean up and decommissioning of
provides UK scientists with
research grants & access to
£208 Defence Community Services Agency
stores and maintains
materials for the MoD
nuclear technology
National Saving & Medical Research Council large scientific facilities
Investments £159
£1,646
supports research into medical
£1,222
state owned savings bank sciences in UK and Africa
Defence Storage
£503
Treasury
and Distribution
HM Prison Service
manages prisons of Armed Forces Personnel £179 Agency
stores and maintains
£129
Engineering and Physical England & wales Administration Agency materials for the MoD
Regional Development Sciences Research Council pay and pensions for British
(£0.3bn) sustainable development and
regeneration for areas of England
postgraduate funding in engineering and
science (including maths)
£2,610
Armed Forces
£1,707 £740
Health and Safety
Executive
£217 Criminal Injuries
workplace health, safety and
welfare
£301
Independent Living Funds £245 Compensation Authority
compensation schemes for People, Pay &
The Pensions Regulator
financial support for disabled people victims of violent crime Pensions Agency
£58
regulates work-based pension
schemes in the UK
£30 Arts and Humanities
provides civilian personnel to
the Ministry Of Defence
Research Council
£117
funds research & postgraduate Sector Skills
Home
study and awards Development Agency
Foreign Office
funds and supports employer led
Disability & Carers educational organisations
(£4.8bn) £213 Service
(£3.5bn)
Identity and Passport Service
financially supports the disabled
£425 issues passports and registers all £80 Serious Organised
(£0.5bn)
and their carers Independent Police
births, marriages & deaths Crime Agency
FCO Service
tackles serious organised crime
(Class A drugs, people £32 Complaints Commission
handles complaints against the
JobCentre Plus
creates high security
technology and systems
£24 smuggling, money laundering
etc)
police
BBC World Service
£180 routes job vacancies to the
£225 showcases British creative
unemployed, and administers
Jobseeker’s Allowance, Incapacity
talent around the world
£426 Youth Justice Board for
Defence Procurement Agency
buying materials, equipments & services
Benefit and other income support England and Wales for the British Armed Forces
Natural History Museum
prevents crimes by young
£45 specialising in research, taxonomy,
£7,013
people under 18 and ensures
£2,664
British Council Training and Development they’re safe in prison identification & classification
£146 £190
Education & Skills
Environment Agency showcases British creative
Agency for Schools
ideas and achievements
£443
protect & improve the trains teachers and other school staff
environment
Natural England
£188 £777 (£18.6bn)
Nothern Ireland
£628
hensures sustainable
stewardship of the land £131 Prison Service
£48 and sea
no prizes for guessing
this one
State Veterinary
Agency
£123
Environment, Food & Rural
ensures farmed animals are
healthy, disease-free and Sector Skills Student Loans
Development Agency
£66
looked after
Healthcare Commission
funds and supports employer led
educational organisations such as
£74 Company Ltd
loans & grants to over 1m
(£3.4bn)
students a year
£197 £70 (Commission for Healthcare Audit
and Inspection)
Carbon Trust
GoSkills for passenger transport
assesses the standards of health care
£94
help organisations cut
carbon, commercialise
Food Standards Agency
protects public health in relation £33 new low-carbon tech
National College for
NHS Blood and Transplant
to food
£157 £83 School Leadership
develops head teachers and
Health £67 Authority Qualifications &
other school leaders
optimises the supply of blood, organs, Curriculum Agency
plasma and tissues manages the National Curriculum
Meat Hygiene Service
moniters production of meat £33 Rural Payments Agency
for human consumption
enforces the EU's regulations on
State
size &Veterinary Agency
shape of fruit & Veg
National Institute for Health
£123.2
Health Protection Agency
£34 and Clinical Excellence
creates guidelines on the use of health Centre for Enviroment,
£2,805 Office for Standards in
protects the country from
infectious diseases
£166 tech in the NHS Fisheries and
Aquaculture Science
healthy & sustainble water
£34 Education (OFSTED)
inspects schools, day care and £213 Higher Education Funding
Council for England
childminders
environments funds universities & college
£38 Learning & Skills council
£7,342
National Patient Commission for Social
£88
plans and funds post-16 further education
Safety Agency Care Inspection Central Science (not higher education)
£29 monitors the safety of regulates & assesses social care Laboratory
£34
£11,167.9
patients & cleanliness of science in support of
hospitals Government objectives
Children and Family Court
NHS Institute for Innovation Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Advisory and Support Service
safeguards welfare of children involved in £106
£77 botanical research and education £25 family court proceedings
£28 Commission for Patient and
Public Involvement in Health
and Improvement
transforming the NHS with new ideas and institution, and visitor attractions
£30
Energy Savings Trust
technology free, impartial advice to those who want
to tackle climate change
Source Guardian Datablog, Taxpayers Alliance Design & Research: David McCandless
£64 bn Data bit.ly/quangoed Additional research: Pearl Doughty-White, Alexia
Notes Direct government funding 2007. Some Wdowski, Caroline Flyn, James Key
TOTAL QUANGO BUDGET discrepancies due to opacity/age of available data Additional design: Joe Swainson, Matt Hancock InformationIsBeautiful.net Version 1.1 // October 2010