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  I have just read the actual announcement:
  
  Francis Maude said 192 are to be scrapped entirely and 481 being reformed.
  
  Abolition examples -
  
  - Devolving responsibility for the work of Development Corporations to local government;
  
  - Bringing organisations under more direct Ministerial control, such as the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission, Renewable Fuels Agency and, as previously announced, the Appointments Commission; and
  
  - Enabling organisations, such as the Design Council and the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA), to become charities.
  
  Maude also gives the following as reform examples -
  
  - Strengthening the competition regime by forming a single competition and market authority; and
  
  - Substantially reforming organisations such as the Environment Agency and the Homes and Communities Agency working with them to streamline their work.
  
  I like what he said: "Today's announcement means that many important and essential functions will be brought back into departments meaning the line of accountability will run right up to the very top where it always should have been."
  
  This is better than most people originally thought.

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