Mr. Bernard Gloster:

An additional net 500 and so far we are at about 700, or maybe slightly more than that. The home help grade is in with healthcare assistant grades, which is in the patient and client care grade. There was about 150 headroom left in that at the day of the pause, so they were excluded. About 95 for the National Ambulance Service and about 50 between healthcare assistants and home helps. That is all that was left in the cap that is on that. In the approach to 2024, I have a different approach proposal to put to the Department for home helps because there is a better way to do it than simply counting it as WTEs - we have money for hours and we can maximise the hours regardless of the number of people we need to do it.