Mr Tyrie pointed out that the figure of £3,000, widely publicised by the Confederation of British Industry, had somehow been derived from five separate studies, two of which weren’t UK-specific, and all of which were at least 10 years old. Not only that, the five studies produced “widely varying answers” and used “incompatible methodologies”. In short, the £3,000 claim was “misleading”, and to base a campaign on it was “nothing short of a scandal”.