Ben Farrugia is a Policy Analyst at the TaxPayers’ Alliance and is a co-author of the report “The Case for Abolishing the Regional Development Agencies” (PDF). You can join the TaxPayers’ Alliance for free here. Since they were set up in 1999, the Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) have spent a huge amount of money – […]
Ben Farrugia is a Policy Analyst at the TaxPayers’ Alliance. In this Platform piece he examines the dizzying scale and £64bn cost of Britain’s 1,162 quangoes. Five years ago, the Public Administration Select Committee strongly recommended that the Government compile and publish a list of all the quangos, agencies and other unelected bodies that exist […]
Ben Farrugia is Deputy Research Director at the TaxPayers' Alliance and author of Lost along the way: The cost of the UK’s international development programme, which is published today by the TPA. International development isn’t some sort of luxury item. Although cuts in Government expenditure are inevitable, it would be wrong – and short […]