How much do market principles intrude into academic life?
A. What I have said about funding does not relate to market principles, it relates to where the government is putting funding in terms of collection of statistics and so forth. Again, I am not actually talking about what happens within research institutions because the cost of this is spread right across the board. I don’t see evidence that market influences are actually compromising animal welfare and I don’t see that market influences are necessarily not doing the right thing and what needs to be done internally, but government resources, sometimes the funding that might provide the in-depth analysis in the collection of statistics, is not provided. OK? I have to say to you that one of the concerns I actually have is that we can provide the community with more and more information but quite often we will do that to the expense of not actually doing work at cold-face, work that ensures the right thing is being done and the animals being looked after. It’s a question of where you reall
