Department for Transport announces significant reforms
The Department for Transport yesterday announced significant reforms to a number of its public bodies following a cross-Government review.
The organisations to be abolished as public bodies are:
- Cycling England
- Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee (DPTAC);
- Renewable Fuels Agency (RFA);
- The Railway Heritage Committee;
- The Commission for Integrated Transport; and
- BRB (Residuary) Ltd.
Key functions of Cycling England and RFA will be brought in-house and successor arrangements for DPTAC will be consulted on.
One further body – Passenger Focus – will be retained, but substantially reformed to focus on the core role of protecting passengers while reducing costs to taxpayers.
"Reducing the number of quangos on our books is vital to delivering transparent and accountable public services and will make an important contribution towards reducing the deficit. We are ensuring that only those bodies that absolutely need to continue as independent bodies are retained either in their current form or significantly slimmed down. The remainder we will either scrap, reform, or arrange for their functions to be delivered in-house without the need for separate arms-length bodies. I am confident that these reforms will significantly increase accountability, enhance public confidence in Government and make important savings, whilst continuing to meet our responsibilities to the travelling public,” commented Transport Secretary Philip Hammond.
The move is part of the Government-wide reform to increase accountability, deliver smaller government and improve efficiency, across Whitehall.
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