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In June, research commissioned by performing arts union Equity revealed that in real terms, overall arts funding in Wales had dropped by 30% since 2017.

Members are not being asked to pull out of the scheme, the NPA said, but a reduction in opening hours and the stopping of locally commissioned services would affect it.

In a September report commissioned by Congress, experts from the National Academies identified a number of the agency’s technological resources in decline from a lack of funds, including the Deep Space Network — an international collection of giant radio antennas overseen by JPL.

Last year, a government commissioned report concluded Thurrock, which at the time was run by a Conservative administration, lost "substantial sums of public money" because of systemic weaknesses and a "dereliction" in leadership.

Earlier this month Post Office minister Gareth Thomas said the organisation was at a critical juncture and the government had already commissioned its own review into what the Post Office should look like in the future.