"There needs to be a proper cost-benefit analysis of what an artist wants to achieve.
The report, released on Monday, found a 24% mark-up compared to promised cost, largely due to premature announcement of projects before proper cost assessments.
"What we'd like to see is a proper cost-benefit analysis of whether it's worth using electronic counting at all".
Proper cost-wellbeing analysis would provide crucial evidence to help make tricky decisions like where to put the UK's third runway.
Yet in almost the same breath he acknowledged that a definitive test of neonicotinoids has yet to done, over two decades after their first use, and that the data does not exist to do a proper cost-benefit analysis.
It has been highly critical of former Labor governments for taking decisions ahead of proper cost benefit analysis, most recently after an audit of the national broadband network by the former Productivity Commission head, Bill Scales, found its planning had been "rushed, chaotic and inadequate".
Having the ability to do some proper cost-modelling, for not just the treatment but across all the long term life-effects, is something we have to do more on, and is something that the NCIN and Macmillan are working on at the moment.
Last week Thomas Piquemal, the firm's chief financial officer, resigned, reportedly in protest against the refusal of the board to delay the project by at least three years, until the French reactor is finished and a proper cost audit can be done.
But there is little point in the government offering them, particularly when, in the long run, nothing is guaranteed about the tax-financed benefits that it will still be providing.The use of guarantees does not undermine the case for more private-pension provision, so long as they are properly designed and are assigned a proper cost.
But it is also a serious research laboratory (one of the longest-established in the world), looking into things like the medical applications of nanotechnology.Lady Greenfield's offence, if offence it be, was to modernise the RI's headquarters in Mayfair, one of the snazziest parts of London, without proper cost control.
