Beads - as I said, that would be the equivalent saving in one year but you could divvy it up over the next three years eg get rid of 90 now and see the savings accrue over the coming years.
eglnyt - I was looking at an average of around £130k pa (wages, AAVAs/pension) rather than the saving of making 269 top of the scalers redundant.
Cost savings - cutting out 5* hotel lash ups for up to 200 peeps for 2 days. Sacking Div of Safety in it's entirety. Car allowances for highly paid managers (can't they afford their own?)
Hootin - but when you go to the college, be it full time or as a ROVI, you become an employee of NERL so why wouldn't you get paid the going rate. Anyhoo, when you start at the College, you go onto Band 5 but not right to the top, so you don't start off in the 90k bracket, it'll take a few years to get there, and ROVIs only get a two year contract initially so it's not as if they're joining the Porsche club while they're there. They also have no guarantee of getting a place back at their Band 2 unit after the contract is up so they may have to go where the jobs are which invariably means a Band 5 unit.