Bose-X
You have missed your calling in life with your talent for speaking with authority on a subject that you clearly know nothing about you should be writing for the Daily Mail.
The costs of setting up and maintaning the Part M approval are high, it is not just an admin job as you seem to think and the terms of the approval are clear on who should do and oversee the work, it is not something that can be done by someone that you picked up last week at the job centre.
We are required by the regulations to have another member of staff to carry out the EASA part M subpart G, this is why we have to charge the customer more, we are not ripping any one off, just covering the costs of doing the work that the law demands. The fact that in my opinion is total overkill is another matter, I cant do anything apart from make my views known to the CAA when I get the chance.
As always your comments on these forums are "good copy" but on this subject you are abusing your right to be wide of the mark.