The more I read about just about anything coming from the UK Government, the more I suspect that its bureaucrats and government leaders have all collectively fl

The more I read about just about anything coming from the UK Government, the more I suspect that its bureaucrats and government leaders have all collectively flushed their brains down a vast stinking toilet. Examples in many contexts (some darker than others) abound, and quite aside from some of them being intentionally self-serving, others are simply bizarre. This is one of them. For documents as fundamental as these, the basic premise should be that sure, you create digital copies, but for the sake of having such as backups in case some extreme situation causes the destruction of the hard copies, not as a bloody substitute and excuse to destroy them.