01 February 2006

Home Office can’t do its sums

the Home Office budget is £13 billion a year. This is roughly twice the Home Office’s claimed startup costs of the National Identity scheme. Since the Home Office is claiming the scheme won’t cost anyone else anything extra, one has to ask, which half of the Home Office’s current activities will be cut during the start up of the scheme? Or will this cost (which the LSE estimates to be closer to two times the Home Office annual budget) be swept under the carpet with more incompetant accounting?

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