Professor Desmond Fitzgerald:

No, there was a trawl back. The reason for putting the investment in was to ensure that the system was working correctly. Within that, it was recommended that we do a trawl back, and we did so. The trawls are done in different ways. This one looked for anomalies in the scoring. It went very far back, to the 1980s. We found one student who had been given a score that would have given them a 2.2, that is, an honours degree, but that student should have been awarded a 2.1. That error was corrected, the student informed and a new script issued. We examined a large volume of past results - our head of IT is present and can provide members with the precise figures - but we found no other cases, with the exception of this one case.