Mr. Bernard Gloster:

To put that in fairly simple terms, there was a period of time when we were challenged to recruit the numbers we were funded to recruit. There are two choices in that situation. One ends up with what are called “time-related savings”, that is, one has the money while the post is not filled. Usually, there is an agreement with the Department to spend that in a particular priority area to try to respond to some of the need. Sometimes it is then very hard to retract that back in when there are better times for recruitment.

This year was very different. This year our recruitment outcomes flipped completely. We have had very successful recruitment strategies, thanks to the work of Ms Hoey's team. We are recruiting at a far faster rate than we experienced in other years. The retention profiles are changing and-----