Mr. Dalton Tattan:

The Secretary General has explained some of the factors. The overarching difficulty was knowing what the numbers would be and what the level of award would be. We could make some estimate of the level of award based on the fact that there had been a compensation advisory committee, which had been commissioned to do work on that and, therefore, we had an idea of what the range would be but we had little data on how many people might apply. In the absence of that, it was extremely difficult. Once we had those numbers, from 2004 and 2005 onwards, we were better able to predict what the outturn was likely to be and, from that date on, predicted it accurately, despite the fact that we did not know where in the range the awards would have been made. However, we knew what the numbers would be.