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This is a classic 'file 13' proposal.

For those of you not familiar with F13, in the dog days of a Government when stasis abounds and ossification seems like progress the Minister will ask his PS for a bold new policy to show the Minister and HMG is 'doing something'.

The PS/PUS sighs and goes to F13 and pulls out a dusty folder with a fully fleshed out policy initiative that can be rolled out to satisfy the policy agenda but will never work and after a few cycles of other files from F13 can be re-used on the next Minister.

How did I become so cynical? I looked around me (I think I'm channeling Plinny but it could equally be Persius)

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