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Q120.
Mr. Harry Ewing
To ask the Prime Minister how many quangos were in being in June 1979; and how many there are at the present time.
The Prime Minister
On 1 April 1979 there were 2,167 non-departmental public bodies and on 1 April 1989 there were 1,555.