British Potato Council
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The British Potato Council is a non-departmental public body whose mission is to develop and promote Britain's potato industry.
The BPC will be sending teams into schools to encourage children to sample crisps and eat chips. The BPC even has a dance troupe called the Chippie Dales. The BPC, which has 56 employees and has devised almost as many ways to eat a potato, raises most of its money from a compulsory levy on potato growers and seed merchants but also receives £61,308 a year from the government. It is based in Cowley in Oxfordshire. There is a Scottish office in Newbridge in Midlothian and an experimental station in Sutton Bridge in Lincolnshire. It was set up by the Potato Industry Development Council Order 1997.
[edit] Britain's most Useless Quango
The BPC has been voted Britain’s most useless quango by a website that monitors public spending. The runners-up include the Milk Development Council (MDC, based in Cirencester) and the Home Grown Cereals Authority (HGCA, based in London).
