From the Ministers statement it looks like the DE&S will become a trading fund. This was always the unloved bastard child option of the original Materiel Strategy.
I bleive it was just above Do Nothing as an option with Bernard pushing full tilt for the GO-CO, now he will head it! Wow what a u-turn! Are you sure he's not a Minister as well goven this swift change of tempo? Or is it a pre-emptive to block the young thrusting COM JE 3* (ex HELS 2*!)?