Surely if it's only costing £4million per annum its a relatively small price to pay and there must be far bigger savings to be made elsewhere. I'm not a believer in it but if 200,000 people a year think it helps them then why not.
After all how much of our money is wasted on other things that there is no scientific proof of. For example how much do we pay in to prop up the Church of England and one or two other organisations who try to convince us of virgin births, angels and demons and loads of other hocus pocus.
Perhaps the Daily Mail could double up on the prize and ask someone to prove that God exists because all we have to go on is a book that was written an awful long time ago and I seriously think the Archbishop of Canterbury and one or 2 others are a complete waste of money.