THE future of a Blackburn factory is in doubt after the government announced that 192 public bodies will be abolished or merged.
David Cameron’s ‘bonfire of the quangos’ yesterday saw Remploy, which has a factory in Mill Hill, Blackburn, put ‘under consideration’ for closure.
The Environment Agency, which leads flood prevention efforts in Lancashire, will be scaled down.
The moves will save money and also stop ministers being able to ‘hide behind’ quangos as a way of avoiding accountability, Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office minister said.
It means of the 901 existing public bodies only 648 will remain, 118 will be merged, 380 will be retained, 171 retained but reformed substantially and 40 remain under consideration.
More than a dozen museums, including Manchester’s MOSI, that had been under threat and faced having to charge for entry, have been saved.
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