Ms Ginny Hanrahan:

We receive approximately 55 complaints a year across all the professions. About 85% are against social workers, which is not surprising when one looks at the areas in which social workers are working, with families in very difficult situations. A very small number of those go forward to what we call a preliminary proceedings committee. This is a review to see if there is a complaint to answer or not. Then we progress to dealing with the full fitness to practise process, which usually means that if someone is really not working for the patient's safety, or if there is a concern, we can actually take them off the register. We have done so on a couple of occasions. We do that through the High Court. We recently had an optometrist, which was a quite well-known case. Again, these are very small numbers: 25,000 registrants and 55 complaints, and probably about ten to 12 of them go into further hearings. Does that answer the Deputy's question?