"We should consider taking this further and bring the quango state to an end, " he added.
He also said he would "call time on the culture of quango fat cats".
BCG, for instance, has advised the quango created to oversee America's state-rescued car firms.
Further up the road, another education quango, the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency, is also being abolished.
At present the funding arrangements for academies are conducted by an arm's-length quango, the Young Peoples Learning Agency for England.
Ofcom is known as a "quango, " a quasiautonomous, nongovernmental organization that receives funding and a mission from Parliament but acts independently.
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That would mean yet another bumper payment to the latest quango chief.
That seems to be happening to Scottish Natural Heritage, an environment quango, which the Scottish Executive wants to move from Edinburgh to Inverness.
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One option is for the quango to continue funding community groups, another is for this funding role to be subject to a review.
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That has made it easier for the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, a quango that tries to keep standards constant, to compare different papers.
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Bob Jack from the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives said what was needed was a national and local partnership, not an "appointed quango".
He could not teach because he was on secondment to the Council for the Analysis of Society, a 32-member quango reporting to the prime minister.
Of course, whatever you call the quango in charge of parades, it won't always be able to please both sides to these intractable local disputes.
But transparency will make much more difference than yet another quango.
An email from Amanda Nevill, the boss of the British Film Institute - the quango responsible for government investment in British film, was rather more muted.
During the debate on 22 November 2011, the parties clashed over the issue of the so-called "mandate" for the proposed new quango, the NHS Commissioning Board.
But as I wrote on 12 July, simply changing the name on the brass plate above a parading quango's door is no guarantee of success.
On the minus side English Nature, a quango with responsibility for the environment, has published evidence that they might end up creating a new class of weed.
The Basic Skills Agency, a quango charged with educating poorly-qualified people of all age groups, was not even consulted during the drafting of the white paper, it says.
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The quango, which is to be subsumed by the assembly, has said it wants its work promoting the Welsh language to continue after it is abolished in 2007.
It suggested that the quango should get a series of extra powers related to community relations, and should in the future be known as the Equality and Good Relations Commission.
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Mr Pickles has been at the forefront of the government's efforts to decentralise power - and has fought a series of high-profile battles with quango and council bosses over alleged extravagance with public money.
Though sitting on a quango is itself usually unpaid, many will have boosted their curricula vitae, and hence their paid careers, by sitting on a public body with a big budget taking big decisions.
And the design dreamt up in the 1960s has outlasted the quango which created it - of the 160 units the centre now has all but 15 are currently occupied although 12 of those are spoken for.
The government has set up a new quango in response, which is what governments do when they don't want to be seen to be doing nothing, but expect an issue to go away of its own accord.
But Councillor Margaret Eaton, chairman of the Local Government Association, (LGA) which represents English councils said it was "time for a radical overhaul of the quango state" to give taxpayers more influence over how their money is spent.
The Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC), a quango with the ability to force through important national projects over the objections of locals, is supposed to make it easier to build power lines, storage plants, wind farms and the like.
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This cutting of red tape has delighted business - and doubtless those wanting a roof extension, too - but green groups and civic groups fear that the new system has handed power to a quango from politicians and people.
Lacking a single body with the authority and resources of the Fed, the tests are being run by a tangle of national regulators, the European Commission, the European Central Bank and a quango called the Committee of European Banking Supervisors.
Though anecdotes abound of candidates being vetted by party operatives, the main means by which the Conservative government ensured that quango boards were broadly sympathetic was a legitimate one: they asked the appointments panels to seek people with business experience.
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