Mr. Robert Watt:

Let us think about a private secretary to a Minister. There is a competition for that post. Somebody gets an allowance for that job. It is a job which involves being there all the time - weekends - always available to the Minister. There are more responsibilities associated with the job. It is a very responsible job to ensure that the Minister is looked after and so on. So there is an allowance for that, which reflects higher duties and different responsibilities. The position had been that one retained half of that when one left. The policy now is that one will not retain that.