Mr. Bernard Gloster:

To add to that, and it is an important point, we are obviously coming very close the end of the year and to what is for us a very pressured position. I have said to chief officers that in the areas that employ home help directly, if panels of people they started to recruit before we introduced employment controls are in place, somebody is available to be hired, and that is directly linked to a discharge from hospital or a delayed transfer of care, we would look at that very compassionately and favourably. I expect that next year we will recruit home helps on a very significant scale. A different approach can be adopted to counting home help whole-time equivalents, as opposed to routine staff whole-time equivalents, because many of them are part time. I am trying to finalise a different way to approach that for next year.