It includes the Health Protection Agency, which gives advice on infectious diseases and environmental hazards, and the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, which regulates fertility clinics.
A further four bodies will be privatised and 129 merged.
Another 94, including the BBC World Service, are said to be under threat, according to Cabinet Office sources. Some 350 bodies have been reprieved.
If confirmed, the cull of quangos – unelected taxpayer-funded bodies – will save billions of pounds, cost thousands of jobs and spark an enormous row.
The list confirms previous announcements that the Audit Commission, UK Film Council and eight regional development agencies are to be abolished.
Others tipped for the axe include the Commission for Rural Communities, the Commission for Integrated Transport, the School Food Trust and the Sustainable Development Commission. More than 50 bodies linked to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs are under threat, while 30 health bodies will be cut or have their functions transferred to the Department of Health.
The British Council, Environment Agency, Competition Commission, Design Council, Energy Savings Trust, Equality and Human Rights Commission, the Forestry Commission and the Office for Fair Trading are among the 94 publicly funded bodies whose fate has yet to be decided.
In line for merger are the National Lottery Commission and the Gambling Commission, which would become one single regulator.
Other mergers include a new body covering English Heritage, the National Memorial Fund and the National Lottery Fund.
A Whitehall source said: “Every quango must not only justify its existence but its reliance on public money.”