Department for Business and Trade: Research
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.
Answered by Kate Dearden
The Department for Business and Trade does not maintain central records of feasibility study costs for projects that did not proceed.
The information requested is not held in a format that would allow us to provide a comprehensive answer. To collate this information would require a manual search of records across multiple directorates and business units covering a five-year period, which would incur disproportionate cost.
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