But this was back in 2006, and I think if you look at it over the last couple of years, the most difficult set of reports...I'm sorry, March, I guess it was 2008, but for the period prior to 2008. But if you look at it over the last year and a half, one of the areas that we did focus on--and Mitch Bloom can talk about this--was the whole area of HR reporting. It was probably the most significant issue and the most significant area.
That is where we had the most reports, so we said, let's focus on where the burden is the greatest: HR reporting. We had a number of different organizations there: the Treasury Board Secretariat had reporting requirements, the old agency had a reporting requirement, and the Public Service Commission had reporting requirements. We said, can we make progress in that area?
I think we have made substantial progress. Mitch can outline exactly where we are. I said an 85% reduction on how we got there; Mitch can explain that. But also, as I said, in the last year and a half we have fundamentally changed most of our policies, which now will lead to a reduction in reporting for many of those small agencies.
MAF is another area. We've reduced the reporting requirements through MAF by 50% for these organizations. They are required to do an assessment only once every three years. Also, for the very small agencies, the micro agencies, we don't require them, in fact, to submit all the information that other organizations do. Now they essentially have to come in and have an interview with us, as opposed to submitting the full reports.
So if you look at the overall set of initiatives under way, I agree that we still have further steps to take, but we are looking at it, we are looking at it seriously, and we are making progress.
The one area I will come back to that we probably have not made as much progress on is the area of those reports that are a legislative requirement or a parliamentary requirement. As I said, of the 100 or so reports, 27 of those are either parliamentary or legislative requirements. That's something that perhaps we could have a discussion with you as--