@ChrisMayLA6 The timing of the decision to defund looks suspicious. It was presumably agreeable to ministers and officials in a department that has since been abolished - and the two most senior ministers in it - #LizKendal and #patrickvallance - have left the government. This looks like the - equal and opposite - mirror image of a practice known as 'tombstone funding' whereby an organisation in the course of being abolished finds ways of making financial provisions for 'legacy projects.

@ChrisMayLA6 The timing of the decision to defund looks suspicious. It was presumably agreeable to ministers and officials in a department that has since been abolished - and the two most senior ministers in it - #LizKendal and #patrickvallance - have left the government. This looks like the - equal and opposite - mirror image of a practice known as 'tombstone funding' whereby an organisation in the course of being abolished finds ways of making financial provisions for 'legacy projects.