Yes that is why he is there but any increase in the TSF should be with the agreement of all the staff concerned.
As for the TLPD and flight lists-if they were 100% accurate then fine but look at the HRN overload a couple of days ago and the subsequent incident which occurred. On this occasion there was no flow on but a spike had been identified and supposedly was going to be OK but was not OK in reality.
There is no doubt that delays are down but there is increasing unease throughout the watches that many of the sectors are being run very close to capacity often with insufficient staff to split accordingly when required eg. 7 for 6.