https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201617/ldselect/ldeconaf/137...
Jeez - these Lords don't mince their words, do they ?
But will HMRC listen ?
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I thought it was quite restrained but bang on the money,
Ie:
>You have no evidence for the benefits
>Anecdotally, the benefits dont exist, which is probably why you have no evidence for them
>There are large downsides you have not costed
>As the upsides dont exist, and the downsides exceed even your upsides, there seems no point at all to this.
>Your timetable is hopelessly optimistic
In a private business, you would just cancel the project, but in government, you just dismiss it and carry on regardless.
Eyes on that prize - Gauke and his team must be betting on a huge private sector pay off here. I mean consultancy role the nano-second they leave government. Or maybe he will adopt the Gideon model, and just take the cash whilst still being in government.
Not sure they listened properly to anything that the Treasury Select Committee said in January.
http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-sele...
Precisely, I still can't work out what the agenda is. If we have to report quarterly then fine but carry on with how we submit information now - our choice of how we record transactions