Red box troubles

It turns out there's a minor glitch in our new government's policy that ministers eschew the use of chauffeur-driven government cars:

Now ministers are being told they must travel to their constituencies by second class public transport, but for security reasons their red boxes must travel to the constituency separately in a private car.

This seems like the sort of thing that happens when someone takes a new policy just a bit too literally. Surely it's eminently fixable: just make other arrangements for ministers to have access to the material in their red boxes.

Given that much of the material the minister is being asked to review will be reports, correspondence, memos and the like that were prepared on a computer,¹ how hard could it really be?²

[Via New Statesman]

1. Or that could have been prepared in the appropriate format if it was known in advance that this was necessary. ↩
2. That said, let's hope that the chosen solution isn't to have all this correspondence prepared in various nice, accessible formats only to be copied to a flash drive that is handed to the minister on their way out of the building on a Friday night. ↩