Quangos and HIV
posted: 15/10/2010
The government promised a bonfire of the quangos, but it seems that beneath the surface not a lot will change for HIV. Two HIV advisory groups are scrapped, the Health Protection Agency will go, and the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) will be reformed, the Cabinet Office said.
Not a lot will change with the scrapping of the two HIV advisory groups. They don’t really disappear at all. One will be reincarnated as a Department of Health / Public Health Service committee of experts, and the other will be reborn as a stakeholder advisory group. Will anyone be able to tell the difference – we don’t think so.
The Health Protection Agency will be abolished and its work transferred to the proposed Public Health Service. Details have not been published.
The EHRC will be reformed but there are no details yet. An EHRC spokeswoman said that the situation was currently "largely speculative" and any proposed changes would be subject to wider consultation. The government is understood to be keen to "streamline" the commission and part of its work may be incorporated into the Government Equalities Office. A Government Equalities Office spokesman said the commission's work was currently being assessed with decisions to be made later in the year.
List of Quango changes
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