Mr. Bernard Gloster:

I would be first to admit that the slowdown in recruitment in an individual line in an individual hospital can cause the unintended consequence of needing extra agency staff, particularly in the winter. We went for both a pause in recruitment and a 10% reduction in agency costs. When we see the figures, we will see how much of that happened, and whether 10% happened. Would one cause the other? Yes, it could, if the controls were not there, but that should not be the case.