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Official documents released by Maude’s ministry, the cabinet office, said it had reviewed 901 bodies in recent months. Of those, 481 faced substantial reform.
The documents showed that 192 of the agencies would cease to be public bodies. Their functions would either be brought back into central government, devolved to local government, handed to charities or the private sector, or scrapped altogether.
A further 118 bodies would be merged down to 57. One high-profile example would be the merger of the competition functions of the office of fair trading and the competition commission.
The cabinet office said that would strengthen the competition regime by forming a single competition and markets authority.
A further 117 arm’s length bodies would be retained but substantially reformed, while 380 would be retained and 40 more were still under consideration, the cabinet office said.
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