Over ￡100m wasted on scrapped schools bid costs

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More than ￡100m has been wasted in bidding costs on scrapped schools projects, it has been estimated.rnStephen Ratcliffe, chief executive of the UK Contractors Group, said he believed "well in excess of ￡100m" had been spent by consortiums bidding on the 719 school schemes cancelled this week by the government.rnEducation secretary Michael Gove announced ￡7.5bn of cuts to projects approved by the last government on Monday, at the same time abandoning future waves of the ￡55bn Building Schools for the Future programme.