Member

There is much else that I could say on this dreadful deal. On its £34.7 billion cost—that figure has now been confirmed in an FoI from the Government Actuary’s Department—the noble Baroness the Minister spent months telling us that the cost is, apparently, only £3.4 billion; I hope she will take the opportunity today to apologise and correct the record. This is an astonishing sum to give away when we are imposing financial sacrifices everywhere else in our public sector.