Mr. Martin Fraser:

-----the way it works is that if a serving Secretary General wishes to apply for a vacancy in another Department, he or she writes to me, and everybody else applies through the Public Appointments Service. In any case, what has changed in this case, and I am sure it has changed forever, is that any applications from serving Secretaries General also go to the Public Appointments Service and are processed entirely by the service. Any Secretary General who wants to apply for another job through TLAC would go through the full process in the same way as everybody else.