Ms Phil Fox:

The 1,200 was an additional cohort of student teachers who had not previously been registered. Those who are in third and fourth year now are eligible to apply under route 5 for student teacher registration. That number was in addition to the established register that was already there. It was an additional supply of teachers to try to assist the system in the difficulty it faced. The point I was making about newly qualified teachers was that those teachers would not have received their awards in time to register for July provision. To get ahead of that and assist with the issue that had arisen in previous years, we came to an arrangement whereby if those newly qualified teachers had commenced the registration process and, critically, had concluded their vetting process, we would facilitate them with an access route to participate in July provision, or summer provision as it was called on different occasions, as long as their registration was completed by October, at which stage they would be paid. That released approximately another 3,500 teachers into the system. I do not have the exact figure but it was approximately 3,500. That was to assist with the difficulty in which parents, families and the system more broadly found themselves.