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He said that the functions of the abolished organizations will be taken Citizens Advice, charity and local Trading Standards Office.

Mick McAteer, founder and Director of the Center for financial inclusion, says the program: "If you take one of the main bodies whose task is to represent consumers, I think you will undermine the protection of consumers."

Mike O'Connor, CEO of the consumer Focus, said the program that his organization was the only one with legal powers to seek commercially sensitive business information to make claims on behalf of consumers.

"We have a vital power, we can make businesses and regulatory agencies and the Government give us information so [any other organisation] may ask people to do things but without being able to do this," he said.

M. O'Connor confirms that his organisation of 20 million pounds per year was certain to be dismantled.

He had already been listed among dozens of government agencies whose fate is to be announced by the Cabinet Office at the beginning of this week.

"Government must make this decision and we wait and see what they got to say", he said.

However, he added: "we cost the taxpayer in our Basic 6 m grant ￡ by an.La last week, we won a return to consumers in over 70 m ￡ of energy companies."

"And through our super complaint three months ago we changed the ISA rules for savers will get an extra 15 million pounds per year."

M. O'Connor stated that it agreed with the need for a simplification of the number of organisations representing consumers, but implementing discarded Consumer Focus "necessarily mean savings."

Matthew Sinclair, Director of the Alliance money from taxpayers, who wrote to Vince Cable, the Secretary of the company calling consumer focus be abolished, said that the functions of the body were conducted by industry such as consumer, Publisher organizations that? magazines.

"It is not representing consumers because it can not speak against the Government", he added.

Some OFT, who took the long running, but ultimately failed cases penalty charges banks, will be merged with the Competition Commission while some will be moved to trading standards departments in local communities.

The Department of enterprise, innovation and skills (bis) or the Department of business, Enterprise and regulatory reform (BERR) would comment on the shaking.

A spokesperson for the Cabinet Office said: "the Government has clarified committed to increase radically accountability and improvement of efficiency"

"As part of this work is already underway to make substantial reforms to its publics.Ce bodies work is underway and an announcement will be made in a timely manner."

The OFT has also refused to comment, saying the decision on his future was "a case for the Government" but Philip Collins, Chairman of the OFT has referred to the possibility of budget cuts and mergers in a speech earlier this year.

Consumer focus was created in 2008 by the merger of three organizations - Postwatch energywatch and the National Council of consumption, which includes the consumption of Welsh and Scottish councils.

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