Mr. Bernard Gloster:

When I started this, I requested the system to pull back from a particular type of third-party insourcing. This is one of the reasons I recommended the process as I did, which will take up to next June. The delivery system came back to me and said that, if it were to do that in the way I had asked it to do it right then, the following services would collapse that day. I obviously cannot do that. It is a risk assessment. The six regional executive officers are now allowed to derogate themselves to sign on or off on whether third-party insourcing can continue in the short term. However, I told them that they could not enter into any new contracts. It can only be on a day-to-day basis until we can wind back from it. In addition, new protections as regards conflicts of interest and other necessary safeguards are being put in place. That is what I meant by the derogation.