CONFIDENTIAL Grant-in-Aid covering this Service, and had recommended that the value of the B.B.C. Monitoring Service should receive particular attention. She had, therefore, met the J.I.C. Sub-Committee in an attempt to make economies in the monitoring Service; to discover, as a means to this end, who were the main customers, and what value they obtained from the Service in terms of cash, which was the only really effective way of assessing one item of Government expenditure against another. Unfortunately, she had never managed to gain a proper insight into the use to which the products of the monitoring Service were put by Departments, and all she had managed to achieve had been the insignificant economy of £3,000 per annum.