Talk:Non-departmental public body

message: There's a discussion about international stuff started at Talk:Executive Agency. --Mereda 21:00, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

message: I've proposed that this page be merged with Quango. I don't believe they are sufficiently different things to merit separate articles, if indeed they are different at all.
I don't know which title the resulting page should have - my impression is that "Quango" is more widely used and understood, but that "NDPB" is now the legal term for such a body. However, having worked in one, I suspect that "NDPB" may have been invented to avoid the negative connotations of "Quango"... and will therefore prove less lasting. Mswake 21:12, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: NDPBs are not "non-governmental". Whatever a "Quango" is, the term is not applicable to the subject matter of this article. It has nothing to do with legality and everything to do with logic. Wiki-Ed 16:10, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed merge

message: I would like to support the merge of Quangos and NDPB's. NDPB's are widely used in central government and are quite unfamiliar to external agencies, Quangos on the other hand though popular are not widely interpreted as NDPB's outside Central Governmebt and possibly Local Government. So seperating the two will only add to the confusion already ensuing in the wider reach of this forum. 
Having worked in central government for over 15 years i and other colleagues have been welcome bullseye targets for the misinterpretation of these terms. Aeferakorho 13:41 1st January 2006 (LBH).
I also support the idea of merging the two articles, but there remain quite a few inaccuracies in both articles, and confusing aspects, which would be quite a big job to correct. Is there anyone out there who can and will do that, at the point of merger? Guineveretoo 10:50, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Support for proposed merge

message: A "quango" is specifically a non governmental organisation. The attachment of the 'q-u-a' stem was to suggest that the organisation received limited government funding or provided services that are usually operated by the state. Examples include the Red Cross and the Law Societies of several countries. 
Non-Departmental Public Bodies, on the other hand are usually formed by the legislative body of the relevant country and directly responsible to the body. Their funding is subject to scrutiny by the public and Government. In relevant countries, the 'Freedom of Information Acts' also apply. In the United Kingdom, NDPB's are formed by a Statute of Parliament and are directly responsible and accountable to it.
These two sections are fundamentally different in that 'Quangos' are not operated or managed by Governments and that Non-Departmental Public Bodies are. 
Londondevil 11:57, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Although most of what you say is correct, this bit "In the United Kingdom, NDPBs are formed by a Statute of Parliament and are directly responsible and accountable to it." is wrong. Many bodies have no statutory basis and very few are directly responsible/accountable to Parliament. They operate at arm's length from departments and most rarely have any interaction with politicians. Wiki-Ed (talk) 15:42, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disagreement of proposed merger 

message: Recently a controversial decision was made to build an incinerator in Oxfordshire , with the decision formally taken by a body called the Oxfordshire Waste Partnership. Is this body a NDPB? It does not seem so. Is it a private corporation? Is it possibly ultra vires (not to say undemocratic) for the local authorities to delegate their powers thus to this body? I also see other 'waste partnerships' elsewhere. Could anyone shed some light? Cheers. – Kaihsu (talk) 23:46, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I am none the wiser after looking at the Oxfordshire Partnership website. – Kaihsu (talk) 23:59, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oxfordshire Waste Partnership 

message: This article should be Non-departmental public body. I tried to move it, but can't as there is an article under that title redirecting to here.  How do I achieve this change? Mooretwin (talk) 10:45, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed! This should not be capitalised (which belief seems to have come about due to the common use of the NDPB acronym) any more than public corporation or executive agency should be - it is a general term and not a proper noun. Mauls (talk) 03:01, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Capitals in title

message: Responsible for 7.2 billion of public money? The intro certainly seems to imply that all NDPDs fall under this term. Cheers. 89.240.176.126 (talk) 21:52, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is Higher Education Funding Council for England a quango? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

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