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Originally Posted by Ken Moss
I sincerely doubt that we have spent money on this, it has been looked at through the Communities O&S committee which doesn't have a budget. We've been lobbied recently by an anti-smoking group and it seems more likely that they have done the research and given us the results as they came to give a presentation at the last Cabinet meeting with supporting figures.
A simple FOI request will tell you what you need to know without any spin.
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No matter what you say Kenneth, there is no such thing as a free lunch, somebody will have paid for this survey, you say it hasn't cost HBC anything, well it will have been paid for out of public money somewhere along the line, these people don't work for nout, nor do they work for peanuts either, its always the taxpayer who foots the bill, that means the man in the street will have paid for it one way or another. If the people who sanction these surveys had to pay for them out of their own pocket, there wouldn't be too many undertaken, but its not their money throw it about like confetti