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Red Boxes

The entertaining thing about the question about the cost of red boxes it it demonstrates whether or not individual departments are willing to answer slightly embarrassing questions.

Often Special Advisors prevent questions being answered because they appear slightly embarrassing.

The embarrassing part of this is that the boxes are expensive and often not bought through a tendering process.

Once we have responses from all of the departments I will collate them to find out how good each department is at answering the question.

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