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Why are the projections as low as they are? I agree that they may be on the low side, but I can point to a couple of factors that suggest why that may be the case.
That is to nobody's advantage, because it means that disciplines may receive less funding than they might have received and that, in some instances, they may receive more funding than their performance merits.
I do not want to dampen Christine May's idea, because it is good in principle, but I suspect that the business managers may have something to say about it.
There were some suggestions as to why that might be, and the presence of a teacher may or may not be one factor. Other factors that have been suggested include the fact that the local authority has been in the business for an awful lot longer.
We are talking about capable nurses, providing a dedicated service to terminally ill people, having to take into account the sensitivities of a general practitioner who may be offended and may stop that practice.