Welcome to Project AFUERA: Automatic Firing of Undemocratic Extraneous Regulators & Agencies
The Conservatives have accumulated the most due to their years in power, but Labour have created far more by comparative proportion and density.
The Conservative years of the 2010s were a worse period of bureaucratic inflation than the Labour 2000s.
A third of all quangoes are purely administrative and weren't created by any specific legal statute.
Bodies are conveniently circulated (renamed, merged) on a regular basis, and described in a creative array of terms.
Most quangoes cover the entire United Kingdom, but Northern Ireland disproportionaly dominates the individual nations.
Quangoes are created equally across almost every department and area, with all being repeat serial offenders.
Five Prime Ministers from 1990 onwards have historically created more quangoes together than the rest combined.
The worst Cabinet Secretaries were Jeremy Heywood (Blair/Brown/Cameron/May), Gus O'Donnell (Blair/Brown/Cameron), and Robin Butler (Thatcher/Major/Blair).
The worst Treasury Secretary, by a country mile, was Nicholas Macpherson (Blair/Brown/Cameron/May). Followed by Tom Scholar (May/Johnson).
The worst department secretaries were Jeremy Heywood (again), Hayden Phillips (Thatcher/Major/Blair), and Mark Sedwill (Cameron/May/Johnson).
Most Egregious Bodies
- Regulatory Policy Committee (Regulates whether more regulations are needed)
- Scientific Advisory Committee on the Medical Implications of Less-Lethal Weapons (Helps determine whether tasers are dangerous)
- Plant Varieties and Seeds Tribunal (Hears complaints about plants)
- Submarine Delivery Agency (Currently dismantling old submarines)
- UK Commission on Covid Commemoration (Advising on how to remember Covid lockdowns)
- UK Resilience Academy (Trains civil servants in how to cry less)
- UK Council for Internet Safety (Creates internet rules for other people's children)
- Groceries Code Adjudicator (Complains to supermarkets if they don't pay their suppliers)
- Independent Anti-slavery Commissioner (Ensures the only nation to abolish slavery doesn't have too many slaves)
- Migration Advisory Committee (Produces reports on how much mass immigration is required)
Most Prolific Mandarins
- MACPHERSON, Nicholas (165, Baron)
- ODONNELL, Gus (130, Baron)
- HEYWOOD, Jeremy (127, Baron)
- BUTLER, Robin (87, Baron)
- SCHOLAR, Tom (84, Knighthood)
- TURNBULL, Andrew (59, Baron)
- BURNS, Terence (57, Baron)
- CASE, Simon (44, CVO)
- WILSON, Richard (38, Baron)
- TREND, Burke (35, Baron)
- SEDWILL, Mark (34, Baron)
- MIDDLETON, Peter (31, Knighthood)
- BRIDGES, Edward (27, Baron)
- BOWLER, James (27)
- ARMSTRONG, Robert (22, Baron)
- WASS, Douglas (21, Knighthood)
- BROOK, Norman (21, Baron)
- ALLEN, Douglas (21, Baron)
- HUNT, John (18, Baron)
- HANKEY, Maurice (17, Baron)