Indeed. I've worked for Central Government over here. In a minor way, but I know how Government departments operate. The idea is to do nothing to alter the status quo at every turn until it comes up directly and unambiguously in Parliament - and that must never happen. It's known as "creative inertia".
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'