Yeah, I found that bit in the notes eventually. It's all quite complicated really, and I see there's also protection if your new point puts you nearer the top of your grade than your old one did, although that doesn't apply in my case.

I'm glad about your second point anyway. Opinion here seems to be that maybe being a lone CO in a dept just means less good support and advice on careful tailoring of the PD33 to hit all the right tickyboxes.

Interesting some of our senior COs who *are* management have been graded as if they were admin staff not techies, which was rather a surprise, but may well have been to their advantage.