The government said the scheme had been kept under review because of the high risk, difficult conflict environment to ensure the benefits justified the risks, acknowledging the scheme had become too difficult to deliver as the balance between potential gain and risk shifted.
In Goodell's letter to Anthony Hargrove, the former Saint who is one of the players who was suspended, he notes that the union submitted on Hargrove's behalf a signed declaration in which he acknowledged the bounty scheme and his role in it.
At a meeting on Tuesday, the cabinet agreed it would not execute legal documents relating to the revised plans and acknowledged the revised scheme could not go ahead without a competitive process.
Paul Everitt, SMMT chief executive, acknowledged the contribution the scheme was likely to make over the medium and longer term, but said other measures were needed to meet short-term problems.
Nogarin has publicly acknowledged the limitations of the scheme but claims his critics have misunderstood its nature.
Mr. Githongo described how cabinet ministers acknowledged that the scheme was a way to funnel taxpayer money into political campaigns.
The Institute of Applied Economic Research has acknowledged that the scheme has helped to reduce the housing shortage, leading some to conclude that Brazil's social housing shortage has finally been cracked.
The health secretary, Andrew Lansley, has acknowledged that the scheme will cost £1.4bn to implement, but the NAO report notes that in previous major reorganisations of government departments there have been "recurring issues of weak cost control".
Its own feasibility study, published in 2008, acknowledged that the scheme could not afford to cater for the "after-rail" market (ie, longer-distance railway passengers wanting to finish their journeys by bike), lest it be swamped by the number of commuters arriving in London every morning.
