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We always knew that public money is wasted on useless projects, and confirmation comes with the news that a cabinet minister wasted £6 million on research that he was warned could not evaluate anything at all.
As a Home Office minister in 2002, Bob Ainsworth, now the Defence Secretary, put his signature to a study to research a drugs prevention programme in schools. It now transpires that academic advisers tried to block the project before it began since it ‘was not sufficiently robust to allow an evaluation of impact and outcomes’.
Despite this, the project went ahead, and the result is that the report, published earlier this month, found it was unable to draw any conclusions.
Six million quid wasted. Wonderful!
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We always knew that public money is wasted on useless projects, and confirmation comes with the news that a cabinet minister wasted £6 million on research that he was warned could not evaluate anything at all.
As a Home Office minister in 2002, Bob Ainsworth, now the Defence Secretary, put his signature to a study to research a drugs prevention programme in schools. It now transpires that academic advisers tried to block the project before it began since it ‘was not sufficiently robust to allow an evaluation of impact and outcomes’.
Despite this, the project went ahead, and the result is that the report, published earlier this month, found it was unable to draw any conclusions.
Six million quid wasted. Wonderful!
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