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Originally Posted by Itshim
Please tell me that a cycleway costing an estimated £6 million pounds is good value for money it is around a mile long  labour sure know how to splash the cash . Still we have plenty of padding pools in our streets and showers a plenty in schools . The other man's grass etc.  guess by mates you mean born guessing and his friends in the company that has court convictions |
Conservative Cross Border Checks: "Hold my beer!"
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The cost of implementing post-Brexit border arrangements will cost at least £4.7bn after repeated delays in implementing new controls, according to a report by Parliament’s spending watchdog.
The UK has said it hopes to have the “world’s most effective border” by 2025, but the National Audit Office (NAO) said the strategy “lacks a clear timetable and an integrated cross-government delivery plan”, with individual departments responsible for implementing different aspects.
It also said that repeated changes to and deferrals of the plan to introduce full import controls have led to uncertainty for businesses and extra costs for government and ports.
The government delayed the implementation of full controls five times since the end of the EU exit transition period on 31 December 2020.
The report said: “The repeated delays in introducing import controls, and difficulties forecasting requirements, have resulted in government expenditure on infrastructure and staff that were ultimately not needed.”
“Late announcements about policy and uncertainty about the implementation of controls have also reduced the ability of businesses and ports to prepare for changes.”
The Government estimates the overall cost of implementing new arrangements and improving the management of the border to be £4.7bn, according to the NAO.
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