Editing Quango (section)

== Criticisms ==

''[[The Times]]'' has accused quangos of bureaucratic waste and excess.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3953922.ece| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080726203516/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3953922.ece| url-status = dead| archive-date = 26 July 2008| title = Waste mounts as £100 billion web of quangos duplicates work}}</ref> In 2005, Dan Lewis, author of ''The Essential Guide to Quangos'', claimed that the UK had 529 quangos, many of which were useless and duplicated the work of others.

The term has spawned the derivative '''quangocrat'''; the [[Taxpayers' Alliance]] faulted a majority of "quangocrats" for not making declarations of political activity.<ref name="cam">{{cite news |title=Taxpayers' Alliance hits out at "quangocrat gravy train" |url=https://www.cityam.com/taxpayers-alliance-hits-out-at-quangocrat-gravy-train/ |publisher=CityAM. Limited |date=6 June 2016}}</ref>