DPTAC, CfIT and BRB to go

摘要

Following the cross-government review of public bodies (RB1375 p1), DfT announced on October 14 that the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee, Commission for Integrated Transport and BRB (Residuary Ltd) are to be abolished. Passenger Focus is to be retained, 'but substantially reformed to focus on the core role of protecting passengers while reducing costs to taxpayers'. The Railway Heritage Committee is also to be abolished. 'We are ensuring that only those bodies that absolutely need to continue as independent bodies are retained either in their current form or significantly slimmed-down', said Transport Secretary Philip Hammond. 'The remainder we will either scrap, reform or arrange for their functions to be delivered in-house without the need for separate arms-length bodies'.