Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 106044

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Research

Tabled: 14 January 2026
Answered: 26 January 2026

Question

Rupert Lowe

Restore BritainGreat Yarmouth

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, 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.

Answer

Seema Malhotra
Data on feasibility studies specifically for projects that did not proceed is not tracked individually. Isolating this would require manual review of large volumes of data, making it impractical to extract reliably without disproportionate effort and cost...

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