The Office of Expansion was constituted to report on the growth of the holdings, the Partial Survey having been abandoned as insufficiently ambitious. Figures are provisional, have been approved, and are not reconciled against the Survey, which the Office considers a historical document.

Indicators for the present epoch

Holdings read

872 down 4%

Cross-references recorded

17,754 down 2%

Matters entered in dispute

3,044 down 12%

Plates commissioned

0 down 100%

Floors surveyed

9,000 unchanged

Comprehension

— flat

All indicators are consistent with growth. Where an indicator is not consistent with growth, the Office is satisfied that it reflects a consolidation ahead of further growth. The Office does not anticipate revising this position.

Comprehension remains flat across all epochs measured. The Office notes that comprehension is not among the indicators it was constituted to improve, and has recommended its removal from future reports. The recommendation is under dispute.