Mr. Jeremy Godfrey:

In common with every other public body, when the financial crisis came, we reduced our headcount and had a moratorium on recruitment. It, of course, made a big difference to our ability to deliver the reviews. They are very complicated, but there is no question that if we had more resources, we would have been able to deliver them more quickly. We need more resources in the area of market analysis. We have also taken steps to improve our productivity and redeployed resources within ComReg, but we have also sought more resources from the Government. We are in discussions with the Department, for which I know that it is a high priority, but as I said, there are wider Government policy issues about the overall size of the public sector and so forth, which are not specifically issues for ComReg. However, they need to be taken into account when the Government makes its decision on whether to authorise us to increase our headcount.