Mr. Noel Waters:

It is through the Courts Service Vote. Any expenses in the course of their duties are picked up by the Courts Service Vote. The Chairman asked about individuals who were paid. An example of those would be the judge who ordinarily presides over our citizenship ceremonies. He is paid a small stipend for each of those. That is one example. Another example is a judge who is involved in ensuring the telephone and communications legislation is operating appropriately. Therefore we are talking about people who are involved for relatively small stipends for doing that work, and they are all retired. Then there is a judge who chairs the mental health review body. That involves prisoners who have been found guilty but insane. They have a statutory right to have their cases reviewed, so a judge is involved in reviewing those cases. Those are the types of situations where such people are involved. We have a judge who is the chief inspector of our prisons.

A former senior civil servant is the commissioner for the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains. Members of the Parole Board are former public servants. It was believed that they would be able to bring something to that board, but they are not entirely public servants.