Surely the result of that is that the Government should never try anything new, because it might not work - and even worse, that they should spend large sums of

Surely the result of that is that the Government should never try anything new, because it might not work - and even worse, that they should spend large sums of money removing all possible risk from everything they do have to do, to the point that doing the job twice over would be cheaper/take less time/etc, because that looks better than failing once?