Regional Development Agencies are ineffective. The TaxPayers' Alliance's Ben Farrugia wrote:
"In the vast majority of measures, across the vast majority of regions, the English regions were developing faster before RDAs were introduced. In many areas, development and growth has slowed in 1999-2006 compared to 1992-1999. In some, the regions are actually worse off than before. Overall the gap between England’s richest regions and the poorest has grown – hardly a testament to the success of the quango-based strategy."
They cost £2.2bn a year.
Saving id: Regional Development Agencies
Total saving: £2.2bn pa
Traffic light status: TBD
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Previous idea for saving: (9) End the Government Car Service