Ms Alessandra Fantini:

My understanding is that it varies on where people are coming from and how familiar CORU would be with their qualifications if they are from outside the EU or EEA member states. CORU has also put in place many measures to try to expedite and shorten the times. Normally, somebody would have to apply for recognition of his or her qualification and then the person can register once his or her qualification is recognised. One of the measures CORU has put in place is to implement a type of parallel track where it tries to ensure that applicants start on both to shorten the timeframes a little. There also has been an increase in its staffing in respect of recognition and registration in the last number of years. A backlog arose during the years of the pandemic, but the timing is between eight and 12 weeks. I do not have the exact figure but I can refer back to you with it, Chairman, because we have it. I will be happy to do that.