This will cost every taxpayer in the country £425. Tory analysis shows that pledges in Labour’s 2019 manifesto alone commit to the creation of at least 108 new quangos. Their running costs will be a minimum of £1.86 billion per year – adding up to £9.32 billion between 2020 and 2025.
This is on top of another £3.93 billion in upfront costs which will be required to set up and finance them.
The list of pointless and unnecessary quangos include The Agricultural Wages Board and School Support Staff Negotiating Body which were previously abolished as their functions were no longer needed or were already better carried out by other means.
The English Sovereign Land Trust would duplicate functions already carried out by existing bodies like Local Authorities, it is claimed.
The resurrection of New Labour’s failed network of Government Offices of the Regions and Regional Development Agencies, cost taxpayers hundreds of millions every year and were abolished for providing bad value for money for taxpayers.
Mr Corbyn’s proposed Workers’ Protection Agency, the Tories claim, would effectively be a taxpayer-funded enforcement arm of the trade unions, with huge power not only to take regulatory and enforcement action against businesses but also to bring full-on legal action against them.
Despite creating a swathe of new needles quangos the Labour leader also wants to abolish crucial organisations such as Ofsted.
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Rishi Sunak said: “Jeremy Corbyn’s plan to set up over a hundred new quangos will hugely increase bureaucracy and waste in government.
“Corbyn’s new quangos range from the pointless and profligate to the deeply damaging and sinister. I am particularly concerned that they will hugely increase the power of their chums in the trade unions which will mean more strikes and more gridlock.
“The British people have worked hard to repair the damage done to our economy by the last Labour Government, we shouldn’t let Corbyn throw it all away.
“His reckless spending spree will cost every taxpayer an extra £2,400 a year.
“The British people don’t want more quangos and bureaucrats, they want us to fund more nurses, doctors and police on our streets.”
By the end of Gordon Brown’s disastrous Labour government in 2010 there were almost 1000 quangos – quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations across the UK.
David Cameron promised a “bonfire of the quangos” when he became Prime Minister in a bid to reduce public bodies’ costs by £2.6billion by 2015.
It announced 192 quangos were to be axed.
But there are hundreds of quangos across the UK, costing tens of billions of pounds to fund.
Jon Trickett, Labour’s Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office, commenting on the Tories press release about quangos, said: “The Tories have been caught lying about Labour policies time and time again in this election, and this is no exception.
“Labour is committed to making government accountable and putting power in the hands of the people.
“We are proud of our transformative manifesto and our ambitious plans to start implementing it in our 100 days in government.”
