Male/Female Composition of the Contrôleur Général’s Staff 4.1.2 Trainees and Occasional Staff Members In the course of the year the Contrôleur Général des lieux de privation de liberté welcomed 13 trainees, from vocational training institutes, the schools of the French civil service (in initial training or inservice training) and French and foreign universities. Vocational training institutes (Bar School) Schools of the French civil service (ENM, ENS, IRA) University 3 8 2 Number of trainees received In order to carry out the secretarial work, occasional employment was used to fill vacant positions pending the commencement of the assistant in her position. A second occasional position was used in order to reinforce the centre for referred cases, pending the creation of posts in 2015. 4.2 Financial Resources 4.2.1 Wage Bill The funds for staff can be broken down into three parts: remuneration of permanent staff, contributions to the special “pensions” appropriation account and funds to repay the cost of the salaries of external staff. In 2014, the year closed with the available sum of €346,155 of which €108,797 in the special pensions appropriation account. The consumption of funds for repayment of the cost of salaries of external staff was lower than the projected €199,466. This is justified on several grounds. 78