@goodlawproject
You're committing the biggest mistake that gets made when talking big numbers to the public: making them sound not as big as thy are.

'Fourteen point nine' is a number human brains can intuitively process. 14.9 thousand, we can imagine that many people at a concert or football match. 1.49 million pounds is... a fortune, or at least a posh house.

Sod verbiage, and call it what it is: 14.9 THOUSAND MILLION pounds.