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On being picky about the consignments, there has been a different level of control over goods that have been taken through Heathrow airport, for example, compared with those that have been taken through continental Europe.
However, I still believe that the process as laid out does not represent value for the taxpayer.The financial memorandum to the bill found that a regional poll could cost the taxpayer £1.3 million, compared to £0.3 million for a constituency petition and the subsequent by-election.
We set that out in the report when we talk about the size of, for example, the NHS workforce compared with some of the other sectors of public spending.
Child winter heating assistance can therefore achieve a lot less and provide a lot less comfort for those households in the year that we are in now compared to the year in which it began.