Ms Angela Denning:

We run competitions at the level concerned here, including court registrars. We run competitions for the High Court twice a year. We can get office staff through the Public Appointments Service system. We can run local competitions in the event that the Public Appointments Service does not have panels in place and we can also use staff mobility across the Civil Service. We can get staff in quite quickly. It takes a little bit of time to train staff, but I would be confident that if I knew judges were coming and were going to be assigned to the list, I would get the staff in.