(1) And health provision is controlled by Swindon's primary care trust an unelected quango with councillors confined to an advisory role.(2) Growing evidence shows that a government quango fixed the exam results to lower students' grades.(3) He has now written to the Learning and Skills Council, the government quango responsible for over-16s education, to ask them to look at the anomaly.(4) Local authorities, health boards and quangos will also be expected to merge their administrative wings, to reduce duplication.(5) Councils, health boards and quangos all offer the promise of secure employment and - increasingly importantly - guaranteed pension deals.(6) Appointments to non-departmental bodies like quangos are subject to the scrutiny of the Public Appointments Commission.(7) Meanwhile, government bodies, quangos and initiatives are constantly being rebranded.(8) Elected assemblies will draw their powers mainly from central government, its agencies and quangos not from local government.(9) Despite ministerial promises of rich pickings and public support from various quangos , it appears that only a few scraps will be handed out to Scottish firms.(10) Finally it also makes it far harder for quangos and lobbyists to influence government policy when any legislation can be easily derailed and brought to a popular vote.(11) Let us judge whether people are fit to represent us, not these unelected, unaccountable standards quangos , committees and commissioners.(12) It was in quangos and organizations outside the direct control of the government that women activists were most successful in struggling for better economic and political opportunities.(13) However, government ministers, the devolved assemblies, local authorities, quangos and all public bodies will be subject to the Convention.(14) He sits on many influential health forums, quangos and charities, and donated u00a35,000 to the Labour Party last year.(15) Her salary compared poorly, in most cases, with those of other senior administrators in Scotland's quangos and arts bodies.(16) The process has been taking place for some time with the growth of bureaucracy in national and local governments, plus quangos and large areas of administration like the European Union.
