Bradford’s Media Museum has escaped a massive Government cull of quangos.

Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude today announced that 192 quangos are being scrapped, 118 bodies will be merged and a further 171 would be “substantially” reformed in the long-awaited bonfire.

The National Media Museum, which is part of the National Museum of Science and Industry, is safe.

For months it has been known Yorkshire Forward was being scrapped but other organisations had to wait to learn their fate.

The future of Remploy is uncertain after the organisation was placed “under consideration”. Set up after World War Two, Remploy is the biggest employer of disabled people in the country. The company has an office on Bank Street in Bradford and it has told the Telegraph & Argus it hopes to open a branch at the location.

Shipley MP Philip Davies said: “I am all for Remploy and was against factories being closed previously.

“There are many people who sit at home and claim benefits and do not want to work, and then you have genuine people who could claim but want to work and make a great contribution to our society. We should be encouraging them to keep up the good work not threatening them with closure.”

Mr Maude could not confirm how many jobs would be lost across the country and Labour claimed the cull would end up costing more than it saved.

Mr Maude said: “What people find so irritating is the sense that there is this huge amount of activity incontinently set up, much of it by the last government, by bodies which are not in any way accountable – no one can be held accountable for what they do and that is what we are seeking to change.”

The Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority will be kept on grounds it performs a “technical function which should remain independent of government, but review governance and increase accountability”.

Among the bodies to be scrapped are the UK Film Council, the Audit Commission, the Health Protection Agency and the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.