RE: GTAC to cost £25m - Home Office 27/3/2000

[Roland Perry]

In article <002401bf9a09$27a28a10$0100a8c0@DIRECTOR>, Caspar Bowden
<cb@fipr.org> writes
>"PUBLIC SECTOR FINANCIAL COST AND PUBLIC SECTOR MANPOWER EFFECTS

[....]

>Overall extra costs are estimated at £750,000."

I've mentioned this before (see our handout at SfS for example)

"Paragraph 354 of the Explanatory Notes estimates the overall Public
Sector Financial costs arising from the Bill to be £750,000. The costs
to Public Sector CSPs in implementing the Bill do not appear to have
been considered."

Of course, those Public Sector CSPs won't have any costs, if the SoS
coughs up (but presumably only to the tune of £20M for all CSPs as per
the RIA). It's cost the Americans an order of magnitude more, but they
do have more of this kind of industry over there.

No doubt there is some understanding that the financial costs of Bills
do *not* include the money spent by Law Enforcement agencies, CPS,
Courts, and so on. GTAC escapes by a whisker ?
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