A TaxPayers' Alliance investigation has revealed that 2,145 permissions have been granted to quango staff to work abroad since 2019.
Speaking to the Telegraph, which published these findings, our investigations campaign manager, Joanna Marchong said:
"Taxpayers are growing ever more curious about what on earth the vast network of quangos are actually doing, and why so much power has been devolved to them.
"Ministers have handed significant control of services and policy to unelected bodies frequently not based in London, limiting further their ability to hold them to account. And it's now been revealed that many staff are not just based outside of London, they're often not based in the UK at all.
"That’s why we’ve launched our Britain’s Quangos Uncovered campaign: to expose the waste, secrecy and lack of oversight that defines the quangocracy"
Read the full story here.