TC_LTN,
i don't think accusing Spangly of scandal mongering over this issue, saying it shouldn't be in this forum, is very fair. I guess you must be doing Luton radar at TC, having worked with your colleagues in the tower preNats, when you had Lars. Of course now, the top of your scale is 22,000 pounds more than that of your colleague in your tower where you worked a couple of years ago. So maybe you are a tad biased...
While Nats controllers provide the Lars at Farnborough, it is on behalf of the aerodrome authority, Tag Aviation. Any money from the central lars budget goes to them. They then pay the Nats contracts for all the staff.
As Wee Jock has said, they may decide to get rid of Lars, to save money on the overall contract. The whole area will then fall apart, there will be airproxes all the time, and no-one will want to use Farnborough.
Farny