Ms Caron McCaffrey:

Yes, and just to clarify, when our prisons went into lockdown earlier this year, and again more recently, it unfortunately had an impact on some investigations. Some of those were category A investigations where an external investigator is called into the prison to deal with a complaint made by a prisoner. Investigations undertaken by the Inspector of Prisons in relation to deaths in custody may also have been impacted. There was no cessation of protected disclosure investigations. There was a misinterpretation of the inability of people to enter prisons by a member of staff in the protected disclosures unit-----