You are assuming they would be paid £1,000 a day as an employee, something I doubt for any but the highest Directors in the Civil Service.
If they are being paid £1,000 a day to their Limited Company then I can almost guarantee they are paying way more into HMRC than they would as a permanent employee on a normal salary.
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