I was at a meeting in the early nineties where an Air Rank Engineering Officer ordered the scrapping of spares for a certain ac type that has only just left service. It appeared that he would rather see the scrap value added to his budget than pay for the storage and wasn't interested in the possibility of selling said items for full value to a foreign air force, because the benefits would not have been seen whilst he was in post.
This was just after the start of NMS (New Monetary System?) - which introduced budget-holding to lower-level organizations.