However, he did not reject the idea outright, going on to say that, whatever the channel's future, its remit to cater for minority audiences and take risks must not change.
The Murdoch press is an enemy of the BBC for commercial reasons," said Dimbleby, 70, in reaction to the release of the government's green paper on the future size and remit of the corporation.
Scottish-born Mahon has previously worked closely with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, having served as a member of the advisory panel put together to help map out the future scope and remit of the BBC ahead of the renewal of its royal charter last year.
Giving groups of GPs the power to commission health services on behalf of patients and control over budgets will limit the role of England's 152 primary care trusts, and question marks may arise too over the remit and future of the 10 regional strategic health authorities.
The BBC also argued against sharing the licence fee with other broadcasters, saying it needed the current level of funding to fulfil its public service remit and future strategy - including the proposed 30-day extension catch-up window on the iPlayer.
However, there may be remit for future research to specifically validate the FMS with performance of everyday life activities in a pediatric population.
Given that health research could be seen to fall into this remit, the future relationship of the Medical Research Committee and the new Ministry needed to be clarified.
Therefore, the remit of future treatment strategies for osteoarthritis must broaden from simply managing joint pain to take into account the overall management of the patient as well, along with any co-existing risk factors.
While the prediction may be obtainable in parallel and reported asynchronously to the user (which falls in the remits of future work), users will still expect meaningful recommendations presented to them in reasonably quickly, which is often in order of just few seconds on a web browser or a mobile application.
In addition, an EDTA sample was obtained from all recruits at baseline and at 3 years, and with the participant's specific informed consent, plasma and DNA aliquots stored at –80°C, for future analyses out with the remit of the current trial.
