University of Leicester to make redundant all pure math professors (2021)

Looks like they combined Maths and CS into one school

https://le.ac.uk/computing-and-mathematical-sciences

The course offer looks to be mainly applications, which does tend to fit the profile of this particular university in the UK. The staff list looks to be roughly balanced between mathematical sciences and CS.

https://le.ac.uk/computing-and-mathematical-sciences/people/.... Totally random professor (in UK professor is a job description and very senior)

https://le.ac.uk/people/sergei-petrovskii

He does ecological modelling. One paper that caught my very superficial eye

https://chaos1.la.asu.edu/~yclai/papers/PLR_2020_MACFGHLPSZ_...

So to answer your question: going strong, mostly applications.