 The report named the British Potato Council as one of the nine "most useless quangos".In 2008, it was merged with other similar levy-funded organisations to form the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board, where it operates as a specialist division focused on the potato industry.Even though it received its £6m funding in 2007 solely from British farmers, it was forced to drop the word "British" from its name due to EU rules.