Regional development agencies failing to help local enterprise - Telegraph Matthew Elliott, Chief Executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance called for George Osborne, the Chancellor, to use this week’s Budget to abolish them altogether. He said: "The Regional Development Agencies are hugely wasteful and ineffective, and they should all be abolished." It seems Mr Elliott has an axe to grind here. His organisation has clearly ignored the last NAO report on the RDAs and the view of the LSE . It is clear that TPA's report is based on the "glass is half empty" philosophy. It is also written with a "sweep-all-with-one-brush" mentality and large doses of insinuations by use of examples, that all RDAs are the same. Certain RDAs, if not all, produce a draft regional strategy which goes out to public and private bodies for consultation and input. It is also available to general public. Did the TPA ever got itself involved in helping to shape any of the reg