Sentence examples for length agencies from inspiring English sources

Arm's length agencies, such as the Highways Agency, historically siphoned off to provide a narrow spectrum of state functions, should be included in the conversation and made accountable for how broader government policy is delivered.

25 The evaluation was overseen by an external steering group chaired by a layperson, with representation from key stakeholders, including patients, professional bodies, academic institutions, and Connecting for Health, which at the time of the study was the "arm's length" agency of the Department of Health responsible for implementing the National Programme for IT.

Elsewhere in Europe most governments plan to create arm's-length agencies, but their independence is questionable.

Then there are the issues that have been left out, notably in the concentration on local authorities, which has largely obscured the use of covert surveillance by central government departments and arms-length agencies including Defra, the NHS and the Environment Agency, all of which have been criticised in the past by the surveillance commissioner.

I make three key points: (1) HE data infrastructures are the products of policy networks of political actors, arms-length agencies, consultancies, think tanks and private sector contractors whose reformatory objectives for the sector are encoded in the technical architecture.

The UK Border Agency was formed in 2008 as an arms-length agency of the Home Office but Mrs May said this had led to a "secretive culture".

New Brunswick also created the Early Learning and Childcare Trust Fund, an arm-length agency with a board appointed by the provincial government, that ensured long-term public funding for regulated space creation, tuition reimbursement for childcare staff upgrading their skills, and the implementation of the 0- to 4-year-old curriculum.

Homer also defended at length her agency's handling of the HSBC files and the subsequent investigation, saying French authorities had refused wider use of the files to tackle issues such as money laundering in 2010, before allowing it this week following publication by the Guardian, ICIJ, Le Monde, the BBC and others.

Two different arms-length government agencies have also been instrumental in establishing the trading relationship.

PHO is an arm's length government agency charged with the protection and promotion of health and the reduction of health inequities for Ontarians [ 18].

The Americans have now learnt from the success of this arms-length innovation agency and replicated it in Arpa-E – an agency devoted to doing for energy research what Darpa does for defence.