We were told that recruitment played a role in the decision to become fully remote. However, we hope that other options were thoroughly explored first and staff were consulted before this drastic step was taken. Moving to a hybrid model of working in January 2022 may have been sufficient to widen the pool of candidates given Birmingham’s central location and good transport links. If recruitment was the driving factor, the CCRC’s senior leaders should have been pushing the Ministry of Justice hard for more funding to enable the Commission to offer competitive salaries. (Conclusion, Paragraph 95)