Subscribe to this blog's feedJust for the record, a series of parliamentary questions has revealed some interesting facts about government publications over the past two years as our political masters formulated policy as part of what seemed like a never-ending energy review.
Who can forget such master-pieces as Our Energy Challenge, the tome that kicked off the energy review process in 2006? Or its successor in the same year The Energy Challenge and finally last year’s white paper Meeting the Energy Challenge?
The total cost of the 5,400 documents produced in 2006 was £104,000. Print runs of 2,600 and 2,800 were involved. As for last year’s white paper, some 4,000 copies were printed at a cost of about £112,000.
Whitehall spent £1.8 million on consultants for the Energy Review. Those trousering the dosh included academics from Imperial College, London and Manchester University, AEA Technology Environment, Deloitte, E4Tech, Econnect, Ernst & Young, Global Insight, Poyry Energy (formerly called Ilex), Jackson Consulting, Jade Energy, Morgan Stanley, Nera Economic Consulting, Oxera Consulting, Oxford Economic Forecasting, Redpoint Energy, Wade, and Wood Mackenzie.
The great man wonders what happened to all those documents (and those downloaded from the web). Are they doubling up as door stops? Were they sent to Drax for co-firing with coal? Or are they used to cure insomniacs?
Disconnector thinks we should be told.
