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...