EU rules give UK taxpayers multibillion pound
bill
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Leave research has revealed that EU procurement rules cost UK taxpayers £8.4
billion between 2010 and 2014. These onerous regulations make it more expensive
for public authorities to build vital services such as schools and hospitals.
They also cause huge delays to projects, amounting to 5,422 years in 2014
alone.
When you reflect on what this money could have bought it brings home
the huge cost of our EU membership. £8.4 billion could have funded 25 new
hospitals here in the UK or paid for England’s flood defences three times over.
The annual cost is five times what we spend on the NHS Cancer Drugs Fund and
could have paid for 273,000 basic state pensions.
