SR's status could be described as that of a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization.

A quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation; 5.

That this House notes with alarm that quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations (quangos) are now responsible for 21 per cent.

Elwa was one of several quangos - quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations - abolished and brought under direct control by the assembly government in 2006.

Both Labour and the Conservatives want to crackdown on quangos - or quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations, to give them their full title.

They work through 80 appointed bodies called quangos - quasi-autonomous non-governmental organizations - that backers pledge will now be eliminated.

Quango, an acronym meaning "quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation"

The term 'quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization' was created in 1967 by the Carnegie Foundation's Alan Pifer.

The Tories have made quangos – quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations – almost a dirty word, promising to reduce the numbers and overhaul their regulatory powers.

On accusations of nepotism and in-group bias, the Ministry in 1999 setup two quasi-autonomous non-governmental organizations responsible for appointments and administration.

The latter term, usually an acronym for 'quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization', has now entered popular usage, indicating the interest which quasi-government has recently begun to attract.

Some learned societies (such as the Royal Society of New Zealand) have been rechartered by legislation to form quasi-autonomous non-governmental organizations.

Quangos — the word is a portmanteau of Quasi-Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisations - have long been attacked for providing “jobs for the boys”.

The Tories said the move was laughable as the number of quangos - or quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations - had risen dramatically since Labour came to power in 1997.

The group was charged with identifying cuts in spending and staff numbers, quangos (quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations) that could be merged or abolished, and ways to get better value for taxpayers' money.

At "arm's length" from a parent or sponsor department there can be a number of non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs), known colloquially as quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations (Quangos).

Following the 2010 United Kingdom general election, the UK Government announced plans to curb public spending through the abolition of a large number of quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations (quangos).

Quangos, or "quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations", are unelected advisory bodies, consumer watchdogs or organisations carrying out public services and are arms-length bodies funded by Whitehall departments but not run by them.

Although they account for billions of pounds of taxpayers' money, only a tenth of Britain's 900 quangos - short for Quasi-Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisations - disclose details of senior executives' pay and expenses.

In both the United Kingdom and Ireland, a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation (quango or QuANGO, less often QANGO or qango) is an organisation to which a government has devolved power.

The fund was overseen by the independent quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation (quango) the Union Modernisation Fund Supervisory Board (officially termed a non-departmental public body), which was part of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

In the United Kingdom, non-departmental public body (NDPB) is a classification applied by the Cabinet Office, Treasury, the Scottish Government and the Northern Ireland Executive to quangos (quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations).

Weisel does not appear after the first series, following his acceptance of a position on a quango (Quasi-Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisation) tasked with investigating the appointment of other quangos, the government's honours system, and "jobs for the boys".

The very word - an abbreviation of quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation - summons up an image of a sluggish corner of the public service full of people pulling down comfortable salaries for doing not very much and probably wasting a lot of public money.