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The equality and inclusion aspect of the work is extremely important to get a balanced view. It also means that we do not get the usual suspects turning up at various events.
Should we face in March or April the worst-case scenario of large public gatherings not being allowed to go ahead—and we hope that we do not—that normal activity will get repurposed for the provisional grade.
If people are not certain what their funding is going to be, an awful lot of their attention will go on marginal activities, including getting the money out of the door as fast as possible, so that there is no money to be taken away later in the budget year.
Not unreasonably, colleges expected to get part of that and to get their fair share of that relief for the capital budget, but that is not what has been allocated.
Resources are a challenge in that regard, as we do not have a lot of direct funding to undertake that type of activity. We get great value for money from the commissions that we carry out around the panel.