Recommendation 25

The NAO estimated that government spent at least £486 million on cross-border travel measures in 2021–22 across the five main departments responsible for the system. Government did not track the cost of implementing cross-border travel measures. The Cabinet Office said that it considered that the border measures were not a single programme, but a portfolio of programmes run by different Departments, and that individual departments had monitored their own spend against the programmes that they were responsible for.44