The lack of new projects may be seen as stagnation, but a slower creative process can also mean that the company is extremelythorough when filtering ideas.
As ministers in all parts of the coalition have said, it is an extremelythorough and thoughtful piece of work representing a cross-party approach in Wales, and we will respond to it with similar seriousness before the spring of this year.
It also needs to be extremelythorough, as leaving infection in badger populations is unfair to the badgers that are to be born in the future, or which migrate over time into the cull area, as they will become infected by the populations that we haven't cleaned up.