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

Caspar Bowden cb at fipr.org
Thu, 30 Mar 2000 15:11:18 +0100


> In article <002401bf9a09$27a28a10$0100a8c0@DIRECTOR>, Caspar Bowden
> <cb@fipr.org> writes
> >Overall extra costs are estimated at 750,000."
>
> I note that today silicon.com is erroneously claiming that
> the *entire*
> costs of the RIP procedure have been estimated at 750K,
> ignoring the 20M
> (x3?) mentioned as upper bounds elsewhere.

Costs to govt. were supposed to be in Explanatory. Costs to private sector
supposed to be in Reg.Impact Assess. Evidently that is too subtle copy for
Web journalism.