THE Government is requiring the taxpayer to spend £161,000 on an ‘evaluation’ of Parkruns. A consultancy firm, Frontier Economics (‘we think more widely than the immediate question, and deliver more than expected’), has been awarded a five-month contract ‘to provide an independent evaluation’ of the free 5km event which takes place across Britain (and elsewhere) […]
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