1) So some quangos and advisory committees have been eliminated.

2) Exactly how many quangos exist is not known.

3) The development of semi-independent quangos was noted at the start of this chapter.

4) In recent years the discrediting of quangos has become a popular political pastime.

5) In some cases Labour's quangos merge existing ones, or replace well-established bodies.

6) Cabinet sub-committees, bureaucratic sub-committees, commissions, boards and quangos provide the channels for processing corporatist interest intermediation.

7) For these reasons, if for no others, quangos seem unlikely to become extinct.

8) Because of these various difficulties a count of quangos is beset with problems.

9) The make-up of some of the most influential quangos is laid down in law, and would require more legislation to change.

10) The precise way in which many quangos are controlled is difficult to determine.

11) The Low Pay Commission, the quango which sets the floor wage, contests this notion, but has been raising it at a more moderate pace in the past couple of years.

12) However, the quango has been criticised for being too close to government.

13) The government appoints hundreds of people to voluntary bodies,(http:///quango.html) quangos and committees of all kinds.

14) Although these are legitimate grounds for unease, solutions are far from straight forward because of the diversity of quangos.

15) Ministers must themselves address these problems and not leave so-called quangos to tackle the job for them.

16) In the large conurbations, the creation of unitary authorities has required new quangos and joint boards to handle such issues.

17) Whatever the merits of such reform proposals it is a mistake to see quangos as wholly self-contained.

18) It is surely unique in Britain for a failed Conservative candidate to be chairman of not one but two quangos.

19) The governors could be stripped of their job of overseeing the BBC's "impartiality and accuracy" with the task handed to the quango .

20) He praised the trust, but said that as "they are still a government quango they can't always tell the truth ... they can't be as outspoken as I can;"

21) But transparency will make much more difference than yet another quango.