Mr. Bernard Gloster:

About 42% of our consultants today are on either what is called the Buckley contract or the 2008 contract. They would all have an entitlement to make those types of claims and, indeed, in the public-only contract, there is an entitlement to claim for call, albeit it is much more defined. The risk of that happening is much lower because traditionally these very high call-outs were associated with circumstances where one or two practitioners were working a rota and they had to be on call either all the time or at least every second day. Therefore, the chance of them getting to take their rest hours for coming in on call was less likely, leading to the payment. The Deputy can see from the very fact that a small number of people are on that list of high earners that it is not common practice in the way consultants go about their work, are rostered or make a claim when they are called in.