The bottom line

€253.3m The cost to British taxpayers in the form of non-refundable payments made to French vaccine-maker Valneva after the government pulled out of a €1.4bn deal to buy 100 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine in September last year.

£20m The amount since 2014 that has been spent on transforming Newquay airport into a satellite launch hub dubbed “Spaceport Cornwall”, says The Sunday Times. Funding has come from the local council, the UK Space Agency and Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit. $1trn The amount of new debt US households took on in 2021 to fund more expensive car and home purchases, says the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. It is the largest increase since 2007. Total consumer debt has risen to $15.6trn, from $14.6trn a year earlier.

£467,325.60 How much the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) paid cybersecurity contractor BAE Systems Applied Intelligence last month after suffering a “serious cybersecurity incident”. No comment has been made on who was behind it.

$7m The price of a 30-second advertising slot during the broadcast of Super Bowl LVI last Sunday. The finale of the American football season was won 23-20 by the Los Angeles Rams against the Cincinnati Bengals at the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. $290m The cost to date of making blockbuster film Mission: Impossible 7, starring Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt (pictured), according to Variety. The previous film in the series, 2018’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout, cost $100m less in total, but the pandemic added to costs. The release of MI:7 has been put back to July 2023.