BW Spending

[moggyjo]

I'm wondering how much of BW budget gets spent on maintenance of the canals and how much gets spent on places like their offices in Paddington and Watford etc?

[onthecut]

Plus their regular reorganisations, then the ritual changing of all the phone numbers on all ths signs, then the changing of the literature.

 

Mike.

[Lady Muck]

It's really low, something like 7%, cant remember the exact amount.

[carlt]

This usually involves a row between myself and Adam1uk (who can quote the figures). It is actually far more than I used to spend on maintaining the public highways, when I worked as a civil engineer, and I had to factor in labour whereas BW, apparently, budgets for this separately. This, from a civil engineering perspective, suggests gross inefficiency, poor negotiation of term contracts and, possibly worse. I don't know where the money leaks to, but I know it doesn't cost (iirc) three times as much, per mile, as an A-road, especially when they count manpower separately.

 

If BW stopped chucking money at new offices and wasting it on overpriced civil engineering schemes, they could absorb the DEFRA cuts and not hike up licence fees.

 

Edited to say: Some facts, figures and considered opinion here:-Clicky

Edited November 19, 2007 by carlt