Professor Frank Murray:

I believe the employers are supposed to make sure that these individuals are on the specialist division of the register. In practice, it turns out that 127 are not and they are employed through the hospitals or the mental health services. I will not return to the general point but it is important to view this matter in those terms. These are difficult-to-recruit posts within a broader issue of recruitment and retention. Not only are there 120 individuals like this, there are 450 posts that are unfilled. Of the posts advertised by the Public Appointments Service, PAS, last year or 2016, a quarter were unfilled.