My experience will be based on the size of our organization. Perhaps Ms. Gillespie might concur with me here.
It used to be that I would spend four weeks in December, over my Christmas holidays, writing individual applications across 50-odd constituencies in order to meet the deadline. When the copy and edit function came into the GCOS system—to be able to copy one application and edit it for another constituency, modifying it slightly—that probably saved me about 75% of the time it used to take.
I think there have been some improvements. Certainly the introduction of the GCOS system has been a godsend in terms of being able to adequately file and track applications. That's been fantastic.
I think there's been marked improvement over the years, in my experience.