Reducing costs overall can be the same as better organised and better resourced. Government departments, whether health or law enforcement, do not want to be dealing with dozens of little empires around the country that cause them to run entire departments to deal with them. A government with a spine and common sense might say 'If you want to operate AA in the UK then you will do X, Y and Z and operate according to P, Q and R." You might then end up with something more useful and which provides the giving public with more value.