For 'millions of pounds' read £1.6 million. That is the total LARS budget per annum for the UK, distributed unequally (i.e. on opening hours rather than movements handled) between the 28 units which provide LARS. The wine cellar under 10 Downing Street is valued at £1.7 million, which gives an insight into how underfunded this service is. All of these figures are available in the public domain, and the Treasury has just declined to hypothecate VAT on aviation fuel as paid by GA so that it could go towards funding LARS, as was suggested in last year's DofT investigation into LARS funding. Go to
www.dft.gov.uk and you'll find it (and the above figures).
No doubt TAG Aviation (who run Farnborough) could work out from TC_LTN's post that if they bin the LARS service, they might get a control zone in double quick time. And most important of all these days, save money.