Most public attention so far has focused on the recommendations which the review makes for reallocating some of the spending during the remainder of the programme. Some of the proposals have so incensed a few Government Ministers that they set out to rubbish the entire review. This controversy has tended to take attention away from what the authors have to say about an equally important matter, the question not of where the money is spent, but of how well it is spent. What they have to tell us in that regard is, to say the least, disturbing.