A million here, a million there...

Interesting point from NO2ID:

the Home Office budget is £13 billion a year. This is roughly twice the Home Office’s claimed start-up costs of the National Identity scheme. Since the Home Office is claiming the scheme won’t cost anyone else anything extra, one has to ask, which half of the Home Office’s current activities will be cut during the start up of the scheme? Or will this cost (which the LSE estimates to be closer to two times the Home Office annual budget) be swept under the carpet with more incompetent accounting?

Guess this is why there are problems with the Home Office’s accounts…