| His ministerial mates would stick him on the board of an SOE, a quango or one of umpteen other types of publicly funded organisation. |
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| To solve the growing problems, the thrusting entrepreneurs who run the strategic rail authority, a wholly appointed quango, had a momentous idea. |
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| Last week he was history, with the board of the quango deciding it was time for a change. |
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| Growing evidence shows that a government quango fixed the exam results to lower students' grades. |
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| And health provision is controlled by Swindon's primary care trust an unelected quango with councillors confined to an advisory role. |
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| The new system operates as a quango and is therefore undemocratic. |
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| The STUC's general council at one point prevented him accepting a Tory appointment to a Scottish quango. |
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| For English Heritage, the quango that owns Stonehenge, it signals the end of state control of heritage. |
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| The American debate contrasts favourably with the cavalier way such issues in Britain have been relegated to a quango and the whim of an elderly bluestocking baroness. |
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| 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. |
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| In order to build, manage and promote Livingston a quango organisation was formed, the Livingston Development Corporation. |
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| But let's be clear, when it comes to shrinking and streamlining the quango state there's plenty more to come. |
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| The Minister came across as an under-briefed, over-promoted placeman trying to shift the blame for the fiasco towards the quango. |
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| Won't quango chiefs always be susceptible to political pressure? |
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| But after London won the bid in 2005, the Olympic Delivery Authority refused to honour the agreement, on the basis that the quango was not in existence when it was signed. |
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| Meanwhile, the Guardian has learned that the government has been forced to suspend selection for a key quango job because of the uncertainty surrounding the investigation. |
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| The culture department refused to comment, because it does not say anything about quango appointments until it announces the successful candidate. |
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| Doubtless, this will be another highly expensive quango. |
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| The earnings gap among workers in the non-profit, for-profit and quango sectors is very apparent, and there are various reasons for these wage discrepancies. |
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| It strikes me that the European Union is creating a further quango which, like most authorities the EU sets up, will be expensive to run and turn out to be a white elephant. |
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| The regional leaders' forum, 4NW, an unelected quango, is based on Waterside Drive in Wigan. |
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| The board is not an elected body, but is made up of members appointed from local councils across the region and is known as a quango. |
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| Quango chiefs are determined to go out in style on April Fool's Day at the health service's expense. |
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| Sir Eric, as Tory chairman, was in a prime position to recommend which unelected Tory should occupy those Quango seats. |
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