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".
The committee also said that the scale of the contingency built into the budget –at £14.4bn, the equivalent of a third of the total – appeared to be "compensating for weak cost information".
It's especially important that the Act's rather weak cost containment provisions be strengthened.
In any other business, that would be a weak cost-benefit ratio.
Rollo said: Demand is still weak, costs pressures remain, and capacity is getting harder to cut.
The Canadian dollar was weak, costs were higher, and with limited real estate development, it was difficult to find space.
Zandi does agree, however, with Krugman's calculation that keeping the yuan weak costs about 1.4 million American jobs.
However, many empirical studies find only negligible or weak costs (reviewed in [ 8]).
Still, the existence, modality and extent of these costs are debated and many empirical studies have found only negligible to weak costs [e.g. [ 9, 10]]; reviewed in 8.
In the period, the weak euro cost the company 90 billion yen, or $826 million, and sales in Europe also fell.
