You will need, of course, to have ongoing independent advice to yourself and to your ministry. So the cut to CPRN just doesn't make any sense. In your own briefing paper, it says that CPRN's distinctive approach to policy research and its particular structure of networks further enhances its ability to access leading experts, research, and knowledge in a range of sectors. It plays a bridge between research policy stakeholders and the public, without playing an advocacy role, and it has developed the ability to move policy discussions into new spaces where constructive dialogue is possible.
Did you read this? Did you listen to any of that information as you made that significant and large cut to an agency that has served government so well for so long?