Quarterly monitoring by the Oversight Board has shown no cause for concern in the number of staff and their skills. Staffing at HCSEC has seen 6 resignations over the course of the year, with manning levels reduced to, at the lowest point, 34. The final headcount for end of year is 39, against a budget of 40+2 (the +2 to allow flexibility for increased BEP work). However, productivity gains achieved over the previous period allowed HCSEC to maintain the evaluation programme while taking on unplanned additional workload – analysing binary equivalence and software engineering and cyber security quality at the request of NCSC.