Professor John McHale:

Certainly if that would be useful to members of the committee to get the data in the form that is most user friendly, that definitely could be looked at.

On the whole, the documents are put together in a reasonably user-friendly manner in terms of access to the information. It may be the case, however, that certain underlying background data are not included in the final document, partly because the Departments want to make it accessible and do not want to swamp the public with data. It may be very important, however, in terms of the committee's role in scrutiny that data are provided in an accessible manner.