To be fair, the funding levels have increased, but the 2018 figures will not be much off from the 2017 figures.
What I hear from researchers is that they feel that they are at a competitive disadvantage when competing against the funds available to American researchers through the National Institutes of Health, for example.
I think that, while funding levels have increased, they still have not increased to the levels that the Naylor report recommended, and that's clear.
The other question I had—