… Crossed wiresThe Treasury castigates government contracts for being monstrously late and over budget.

As remedies, it changed government procurement procedures in 2000 and advocated the selection of PFI as an assurance for both time and price.

Now the 2005 Stirling Prize has been awarded to the Scottish parliament building, a project that was monstrously late and over budget.

The Treasury and the judges for the Stirling Prize are sending different messages. Can they both be right?

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James Nisbet, Cobham, Surrey

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