Public Accounts committee  There are various similarities in the way in which we process samples. They do have the same functionalities. Generally they have a reporting officer who deals with the case from start to finish as a supervisor, but there's not an individual who does each step within a case. It's

Public Accounts committee  I can't speak to Sweden, only the U.K.

Public Accounts committee  The strategy was to increase our capability at the front end because we were working on the automated process for the analysis, thereby expecting to see a two to threefold increase in capacity with the staff that we had in place. Therefore, in order to feed the analysis, we neede

Public Accounts committee  The capacity and the analysis has increased, yes. In fact, the bottleneck is pretty much defeated.

Public Accounts committee  In mid-April of this year we hired nine new employees. Since then we've added two more employees, so we've actually hit eleven now.

Public Accounts committee  We wanted to hire ten in phase one.

Public Accounts committee  It's coming along very well. The trainees are for the search component as well as the analyst group. They should be completing their training on schedule.

Public Accounts committee  We're working on the renovations. The necessary renovations for the first phase have been completed and things are in place.

Public Accounts committee  We are on target for hiring additional staff. We haven't staffed them yet. We hope to have people on board in August of 2007 in order to prepare them for the second phase.

Public Accounts committee  Right now, we're looking at 28 new staff. We've modified the phases slightly in order to accommodate the needs for instructors and operations support.

Public Accounts committee  If you add the numbers up, there are the 10 for phase one, 34 for phase two, and 25 in phase three, plus 14 new support staff.

Public Accounts committee  It should expand as expected. Obviously, these people are still in training and they won't complete their training until the end of September or early October. Then we should expect to see an increase in our capability.

Public Accounts committee  No, they would not.

Public Accounts committee  Not that we're aware of. There are jurisdictional issues, of course, because the samples belong to the investigator, not to the lab.

Public Accounts committee  The other aspect, of course, is the accreditation process that we undergo. Since we're accredited to ISO 17025, we have to be audited on an almost annual basis with respect to the service that we provide. So the technology, the qualifications of the individuals involved in delive