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There is no indication in the piece of how much time was spent by civil servants on the project. The £141,000 odd is explicitly only "in relation to external legal fees."

I do not know what the external fees may have been for - a policy proposal of this type is however something I would expect to have been worked up by civil servants, not external advisors. What the public may have lost is the opportunity cost of the civil servants being able to work on other things. But I wouldn't want any Government to be deterred from considering and seeking to implement any new scheme on he basis of the internal opportunity cost. Think of it more like a research budget, and from which good has come: 'looked at in detail, it doesn't work.'

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