ANNEX A
Summary of Quantified and Unquantified
annual costs and benefits (£ million)
Option | Total annual cost
| Incremental annual cost
| Unquantified costs |
Total annual benefit |
Incremental annual benefit
| Unquantified benefits
|
Ongoing | 66 *
| | Potentially high
| Up to 550 |
| Potentially high |
Strategy only | 267-369
| 201-302 | Limited
| 617-666 | 67-116
| Limited |
Strategy + Directive | 732-903
| 655-825 | Potentially very high
| 649-762 | 99-212
| Potentially very high |
* Plus unknown proportion of £171-351 million costs of measures
not specific to the marine environment
Source: Government's Regulatory Impact Assessment
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