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It was withdrawn after the Minister argued that it would:
put in place a perverse system of accountabilities, in which people would be accountable for the delivery of certain things that they have no hand in delivering, yet the people who deliver those things would not be accountable for that.
That is not to say that changing circumstances are not taken into account—they are always taken into account in the sensible and sensitive business planning of any project.