Back to the thread ...
Two schools of thought on this one ...
1) There is a recession and money is tight so we're probably not going to get anything major this year.
2) We are stretching our manpower to the limit fighting two wars abroad so we should get all the money in the world.
We can discuss those two points till we're blue in the face, it doesn't change the fact that it is not our decision and whatever we think is not going to change the decision of those who are making it.
In any case, I don't care either way right now, what I would like to know is ...
... when are they going to release the damn report then I can stop checking the MOD intranet for news everyday