The promise of the coalition government whose design entails the compromise on the principles of the parties involved, to reduce the number of the quasi-autonomous non-departmental organisation known as quangos is a welcome development.

The Gordon Brown government launched the bonfire of the influence and the sheer size of these organisation called quangocracy to cut their number from 742 to 380 and reduce the cost from the range of £34bn to £60bn to a lesser figure.

The debate is however ongoing as to the quangos that needs to be abolished or incorporated. Considering the influence and control the quangocracy holds which spreads across almost all aspects of public affairs is due to the ministerial patronage that involves ministers exercising their powers to appoint the workforce of these departments.

Certainly the continuity of quangos like Ofcom which regulates the UK communications industries and the British Council that helps to share British expertise and talent to over 100 countries in the world is crucial to the the nation.

Tourism being a huge revenue for the nation, the National galleries and Museums is another quango that needs to be preserved. However there are other organisation that can be merged in terms of their purpose and structure.

The Forestry Commission can be absolved into the Environmental Agency in order to cut costs and simplify the resolution of related issues. As well as the incorporation of similar bodies like the various animal protection rights groups.

It has also been speculated that the quangocracy constitutes to the abuse of the powers of certain offices and campaign groups. In terms of lobbyists who try to influence legislation on behalf of interest groups often not a genuine zeal to bring about positive change.

Lobbyists like the special interest groups, consists of people interested in a specific area of knowledge and pressure groups that involves people with the same particular concerns and priorities both exist to influence government decisions.

 SIGS exists to change the opinions of the government on issues like food, learning and technology, but are sometimes manipulated by cooperations who use them to lobby for their own agendas. Pressure groups however lobby for the legislation to promote mostly good causes.

All of which boils down to the special advisers whose responsibility is to assist the ministers on the best cause of action, but are often compromised by the gifts of the affected parties.