Just pointing out the facts, Davel.
5 The decision to close the FSS
208. The announcement made in December 2010 that the Forensic Science Service (FSS) was to be wound down by March 2012 was a culmination of developments and decisions taken over the past two decades. The common view appears to be that that neither the current nor previous Governments handled the FSS's situation particularly well. For example, the Centre for Forensic Investigation, Teesside University, stated that "the move into the commercial market in the early 90's found the FSS lacking and it never really adapted or was allowed to adapt its business adequately to survive".[287] In addition, we have been mindful throughout this report that the majority of the decisions that we have criticised relating to the FSS's status and restructuring, the forensics market, police in-sourcing and forensic procurement strategy were made under the previous administration.
We must state our disappointment at the historical inadequacies in government decision-making that brought the FSS to its current dire financial situation. While we have been critical of the current Government's actions, it must be put on record that we consider much of the responsibility for the current problems facing the FSS to lie with previous administrations. The changes made to the FSS since it became an Executive Agency in 1991, coupled with a subsequent lack of Government understanding of the nature of the growing forensics market, meant that problems inevitably arose. https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmsctech/855/85508.htmPerhaps it would be worth your while familiarising yourself with the facts then ... a good starting point might be as detailed above.
In my opinion the fact was not the failure of the FSS. It was the failure of Government.
