It may be no accident that the £20 billion 'black hole' in the Government's accounts is equal in size to the amount many experts believe is being lost to the Exchequer each year because of tax evasion.
"Billions of pounds are being lost to the UK economy from cybercrime each year, including from intellectual property theft and cyber-espionage," he said.
And, according to a 2009 report, as many as 17 million working days are lost to booze each year in the United Kingdom.
On top of that, 2.7m teaching days are lost to illness each year, and in half of those stress is either the diagnosis or a significant contributory cause.
Critics say it will not be enough money to achieve the governor's goal of preserving a million acres of land, and say that on her watch about 60,000 acres have been lost to development each year.
An estimated 10m hectares (24.7m acres) worldwide - equivalent to nearly half of the UK - is lost to agriculture each year because the land has become too salty, especially farmland in Africa and the developing world.
It is estimated that 25% of African states' gross domestic output, amounting to $148bn, is lost to corruption each year – embedding poverty, deterring investment and holding back economic development.
The equivalent of an entire GMP division (just over 460 staff, on average) is lost to sickness each day, at a cost of more than £17m per year (based on the average salary of a police constable).
Conservationists estimate that 3,000 to 5,000 acres are lost to development each year, a figure that could increase if New Jersey, as demographic experts predict, receives another one million residents in the next 20 years.
