Mr. Bernard Gloster:

No, because the statement of service is different to the assessment of need. They are two different parts of the statute. A person is entitled to a statement of service regardless of whether the service exists or not. The fact that it exists or not is a different issue. I am more concerned about the existence of the service, to be honest, because you can give someone a statement and say they need 20 things but if you cannot provide 19 of them the statement is pretty useless. The resource issue should not be the basis on which the statement is provided or not.