Mr. Robert Watt:

This relates to the Civil Service. PeoplePoint will take the prison officers and civil servants from the justice Vote but not others. It would be the Accounting Officer. At the moment, I am the Accounting Officer for PeoplePoint and we are in effect consolidating activities, which previously were fragmented and diffused across the system, in PeoplePoint. From next year, we will have a new director of the office who will be responsible for PeoplePoint and other shared services initiatives that we are expanding and that individual will be the Accounting Officer then. The system is that we will provide letters of assurance from the Accounting Officer, which is me at the moment, to each Accounting Officer across Departments in respect of activities we are carrying out on their behalf. We have to provide that assurance and we have to do various auditing to ensure they are happy with that. That is the way it has been set up. We will have to go through all the normal processes to ensure that financial controls are in place and so on and we have to do a specific assurance for the Secretaries General. That is the structure-----