Volume 2: Science
Part 2: Commissioning and funding of research, 1986-96
Introduction
6.38 The main funders and providers of research into TSEs are shown in Figure 6.1, at the start of this chapter. During the late 1980s, the relationship between these began to change. A key development was the separation of many government executive functions, including those responsible for research, such as MAFF's Central Veterinary Laboratory (CVL), 1 from the policy-making parts of Departments, and their reconstitution as Executive Agencies. As Chapter 6 of vol. 15: Government and Public Administration explains, these Agencies operated at arm's-length from their parent Departments, were headed by chief executives who were directly accountable to Ministers, and were financially self-sufficient. Other changes, less obvious, are described here.
1 In the late 1980s, the CVL was part of the State Veterinary Service, which was part of ADAS (Agricultural Development and Advisory Service). In 1990 the State Veterinary Service was transferred to MAFF's Food Safety Directorate, and the CVL was set up as an Executive Agency of MAFF. ADAS became an Executive Agency in 1992
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