Being cynical, there will be a set of rules which will be ignored for the purposes of leveraging money out of folks in a vane hope it is going to appear, notwithstanding it is inappropriate or irrelevant as JEM says.
Delighted they made their target and the ground team have their jobs saved. I hope their might be a few who decide to fall on their swords for the good of the project but seems unlikely given the form book.
Hope the team who escaped the redundancy notices have a good end to the year and Christmas as they thoroughly deserve it.