Mr. Bernard Gloster:

Essentially, an unfunded post is when we say to hospital X or community care area Y that they have a control of 25 jobs. This is the number of posts with which they have to work. However, be it because they are responding to need or because of poor control, they finish up at 28. Three of those jobs are unfunded. This does not dismiss the fact that there might have been a need, a pressure or a good reason. It is not that people recruited willy-nilly. However, those are unfunded posts.