Written questions

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Research

Commons · Question 106044 · Tabled 14 Jan 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record

Answered 26 Jan 2026

Question

Asked by Rupert Lowe

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

Answered by Seema Malhotra, 26 Jan 2026

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...