Professor Barry McMullin:

Certainly, delay is bad. Due to the fact that this process is ongoing, however, the budgets have to be reviewed every five years at a minimum, but there will be a significant review of the budgets when the books on 2025 are closed early in 2027. These questions about how best to address assessing our contribution relative to those of other countries are not going away. As for trying to get the most possible, the most coherent and the most consistent answers - the best consensus across the widest range of experts - this is a good time to try to do that rather than pushing forward immediately.