An MoD spokeswoman said: “We charge to recover insurance, maintenance and admin fees — and cannot differentiate charities from other organisations
Only one word applies B
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Insurance may be a fixed expense no matter what is going on but maintenance and admin fees!
What maintenance bill can a 'small', in terms of time, function run up? If it is a question of toilets, heat, light, by all means charge a fee and that could be varied.
But Admin Fees? Any Admin is done by the people at the site and NO MONEY ever goes near them. If they are trying to offset the cost of the civil serpent who is writing out the bill for insurance, maintenance and admin fees then that is your proverbial self-licking lolipop.
For instance the Beeb wanted to do some filming and offered a small fee to do it. The civil serpent said NO, full fee or no. The Beeb then simply filmed anyway but outside the wire and without any beneficial MOD publicity.
