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Debate between Lindsay Roy and Chloe Smith
Wednesday 5th September 2012

(13 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Chloe Smith Portrait Miss Smith
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I agree. The range of responsibilities handed to those bodies and the amount of taxpayers’ money they received was at an all-time high under the previous Government, and they were clearly irresponsible for doing that. This Government are restoring accountability for public services.

Lindsay Roy Portrait Lindsay Roy (Glenrothes) (Lab)
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11. On this Government’s quest to have a bonfire of the quangos, will the Minister confirm that the Health and Social Care Act 2012 will create more quangos than the Public Bodies Act 2011 abolished?

Chloe Smith Portrait Miss Smith
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The Department of Health is reducing the number of quangos, not increasing them.

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