Perhaps it is time to start to learn to love quangos; perhaps with greater democratic control, such a romance would be possible.
Policy-makers should explore they should explore how to utilise such sponsors as philanthropists, businesses and charities.
As Public Health England recently reported, gambling often results in bankruptcy, family breakdown, higher mortality and, all too often, suicide.
We found over a million people excluded from the Government schemes are struggling to pay for food and everyday essentials.
Closing the transition period at the end of the year will cause even greater problems than necessary.
We estimate that streamlining the quango state could mean nearly 34,000 people off the taxpayer payroll, and a saving of £3.25 billion a year.
Consequently, our third and most important priority is the vigorous pursuit of growth – set our country on a path of solid and sustained expansion.
Voters are more open to higher spending, but if they pay higher taxes for services that don’t improve then they won’t be happy.
DFID managed its portfolio with far greater efficiency than the Foreign Office. But it should improve how it aligns traditional aid objectives with Britain’s goals.
If we really are becoming the Party of Blue Collar Conservatives, our Party must become the change that we want to see.
We need a powerful Parliamentary spending watchdog, a Budget Committee, to stop hard-earned public cash being wasted.
There remains a culture in much of the public sector that no-one will ever be held to account for wasting money on unworkable vanity projects.
It is not a fix-all, but I hope its measures will produce a real improvement in the number of people who become homeless in the first place.
Too often it seems as though our perimeters are seen as a problem to be patched-up rather than an asset to be fully modernised.
The idea that public bodies are a last resort must be replaced with the aim of using them well when they are the form best suited to the task.