Mr. Bernard Gloster:

I do not want to be unfair to staff representative organisations. I am sure they will have something to say when I meet them about it, but my starting point will certainly be to secure by agreement, now or in the next public sector pay agreement, whatever about existing contracts, that all new recruitment would be on a five-over-seven day deployment basis for all grades in the health service, even if it is not needed today, on the basis that it may be in the future.