•SC met last week. News is not good. The overall budget is £9M deeper inthe red than thought over next 3 years:
–Australian contributions lost
–Cost of shared services centre at Swindon
–Government reduction across all RC’s
In this climate big new projects are hard to fund
•SC recommended supporting GridPP3 at PPRP’s “minimum viable” level
•MICE and NF – PPARC will look to CCLRC
–ASTAB meets tomorrow and Friday at DL
•Support for LC-ABD still being discussed but not likely to grow
•Still “trying to find a way” to do T2K
•Zeplin III comes to next meeting…