ASTRONOMY ADVISORY PANEL - DRAFT REPORT ======================================= STFC recently circulated the Astronomy Advisory Panel's draft report for the upcoming STFC programmatic review. The draft can be found linked from the AAP page at: http://www.stfc.ac.uk/About%20STFC/40086.aspx STFC requests feedback on this draft (see their email copied below) by Thursday noon, via the form on: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DWNBN2Z I strongly encourage all ING users to respond. ING welcomes the report's consistent emphasis on the desirability of maintaining diversity of facilities in the run-up to E-ELT and SKA, and on the importance of future UK access to a powerful MOS. However, current and future ING users may be concerned that two critical issues receive little attention in this report. Firstly, there is almost no discussion of the requirement to maintain Northern-hemisphere access for UK optical observers. Secondly, no mention is made of a clear path that exists for providing UK users with Northern MOS access (highlighted on p16 as being required for 3 out of 7 science areas), namely via the planned WEAVE spectrograph on the WHT (2-deg field, 1000 fibres). If the report does not reflect your views about these issues, or others, we encourage you to provide feedback on the above link. We are very grateful for the support you have given in the past to the continued involvement of the UK in the ING. Many thanks in advance, Marc Balcells Director ING