And they have the nerve to say that cutting public expendtiture inevitably means cutting front-line services! Any organisation can cut its costs by 10%. 10% of 101bill is 10.1bill, enough to cover the 10p rectification about 4 times over.

Jonathan Spencer, London, England

Whoever in one fall swoop slashes all government quangoes, will get my vote. It is a national disgrace that there is such secrecy about the hidden workings of government. There has to be more accountability.

ann, London, England.

Britain the wasteful nation with its government once again showing its inability to control funding and expenditures. The parlaimentary system is at fault. Every day in the " timesonline" enough is reported to support this view.

Jim Wills, Brisbane , Australia

I have always looked at the UK budget and wondered where meaningful cuts can be made to make a difference. Always wondered if the tories will make a huge difference. This is almost a fifth of the budget, now I see why a change in government will bring significant change.

Muhammad, Northamptonshire,

The Government don't listen because they don't care. You can shout all you like, they don't care.

Peter, Brixham, Devon

jobs for the old boys is what quangos are for so its unlikely any party will look to get rid of them, though they will possibly rebrand them under a different guise. plus the mps use the high paid jobs in these quangos to justify their pay rises as other 'similar government roles' are paid more.

joseph, london,

Nepotism - If not family members, many will be members of the Labour tribe. We suffer under many layers of government and then another layer of unelected spongers. Look in any sit vacs pages, you will see the jobs on offer, with salaries and perks paid for by - you and me !

wills, Soton, UK

Getting rid of these unelected bodies and the people who sit on the boards and panels would free up millions, maybe even billions, that could be spent on social issues associated with health, provision of old age care, policing and improve NHS services. Why is it not being done?

Kenneth Armitage, Suffolk, England

There IS a party committed to sorting out this and all the other money-draining - nonsense and many people are now prepared to give them a chance. Read the British National Party's 'Aims and Objectives' on their website - it makes sense to me!
PS: All credit to The Times if this appears on-site.

Clive Harrington, Chelmsford, GB

Sector Skills Councils and dozens of 'skills' quangos are burning billions of pounds each year and producing nothing other than jobs for highly paid officials.

There's currently a bid in for a manufacturing skills academy that is unintelligible nonsense. So another 14m pounds will be wasted.

Gerald Dyson, Cheshire,

The originators of 'New Labour' cut their teeth on the fashion and gesture politics of the Students Union. Once in office they translated the incestuous, cosy cronyism of student SOC's into burgeoning QUANGOs - and with about as much impact on reality. Time to make a bonfire of their vanities.

Mick McG, Southampton,

Getting rid of these quangos would release enough money to give a rise of £25 a week to all old age pensioners. Which do you think would be better way to spend this money?

c chapman, corridonia, italia

Simple answer, get rid of Labour get rid of corruption and waste. Hopefully the public will have now seen enough of those left wing cowboys to see that they never have and never will have the skills necessary to run a country.
David Cameron, when asked how to finance it just point to the waste.

D Case, Newquay,

The quangos have become a nulabor device for alternative agenda delivery mechanisms such as Common Purpose, and a back-door method of bypassing democracy, having created and maintained erstwhile clandestine nulabor centralised control from nulabor HQ to street level.

martin brighton, sheffield,

I agree with Martin, that money could be put to better use elsewhere. If the Conservatives saw to this properly and made published reports on the expenditure of QUANGOs from now on they'd get my vote.

Liam, Cardiff, UK

I remember "bonfire of the Quangos".
This issue alone is sufficient to want the end of this Government.Mr Cameron now has a target from which to extract a re-balancing of the Exchequer in favour of the taxpayer.
There is only one issue at the next election -competence.

robert everitt, wolverhampton,

'However, the environment department said last week that it was so concerned about an overlap that it was conducting an “efficiency review” of the three bodies...'

Maybe they should set up a quango to do that.

Tom Welsh, Basingstoke,

'..not only does the Carbon Trust... have a similar remit to that of Envirowise, but there is also a third body. '

And, Yoda-like... there are others: WRAP, NISP...

Peter , Ross on Wye, UK

Labour's form of democracy which means no accountability, out of control spending. All quangos should publish detailed account for all expenditure. Why even bother voting Labour when all you get in return is a QUANGO!

steve tea, manchester, cheshire

£100B is an awful lot of money. There are a lot of useful things that could be done with it, starting with a huge cut in taxation. Perhaps this should be the first target of a Cameron government.

Martin, Newmarket, Suffolk

Agree 100%.

B J Deller, Marbella, Spain

How many scandals(and this is a scandal) do we have to here about this bunch of corrupt incompetent buffons before they do the decent thing and call an election so we can rid ourselves of them once and for all.

andrew, galashiels, uk

People have been saying this for 10 years so why hasn't anything changed? Taxpayers need to shout louder because these people are complete wasters.

judy, liverpool, england