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Items of Concern

• JANET Access: The Observatory continues to require internet access to the Joint Academic Network (JANET) on the same basis as UK university departments. The present arrangement, namely a `sponsored connection' with the Queen's University of Belfast (QUB), provides a bandwidth of only 256kbps. This is barely sufficient for current requirements and does not provide a long-term solution to the needs of a modern astronomical research institute into the next millennium, particularly in the light of increasing use of the internet world-wide. A cost-effective 2Mbps primary connection to JANET would require an uplift in funding of $\sim$£35k per year.
• It is notable that the Observatory operates with a very high ratio of core research activities to the cost of administrative and support staff, and with a similarly successful ratio of external grant income to DENI grant-in-aid. Further economies of scale, consolidation of the present high level of research activity, and further increases in external income would be achievable were the DENI to invest in additional research infrastructure and research staff positions.
• DENI Recurrent Grant-in-Aid: increases in the DENI grant continue to fall substantially behind rising costs, as indicated in the following Table 1. The results described in this report have been achieved against a background of a reduction in real funding levels; the level of research output and external income generation are unlikely to be sustainable if such cuts continue. Were the DENI to reward success and provide the Observatory with a stable funding regime, much more could be achieved.

Table 1: DENI grant-in-aid over the years. The third column shows the value of the announced grant-in-aid for each financial year normalised to 1993/1994 prices, the values corrected for rising costs by the Retail Prices Index. The number of refereed publications refers to the corresponding calendar year (e.g. publications in financial year 1998/1999 corresponds to calendar year 1998). It is notable that the total external income in 1998/1999 was £213k. The DENI grant-in-aid for 1999/2000 was announced at £ 458.5k (equivalent to £390.2k at 1993/1994 prices).

	Total DENI	DENI Income	External	Refereed
Financial Year	Grant-in-Aid	Normalised to	Grant Income	Journal
	(£000s)	1993/1994 prices	(£000s)	Publications
1993/1994	445.0	445.0	35	13
1994/1995	425.6	414.9	58	22
1995/1996	468.5	442.1	172	19
1996/1997	480.0	442.3	264	45
1997/1998	473.2	425.7	275	42
1998/1999	443.0	383.1	195	43