Mr. Graham Doyle:

There are a number of ways, I suppose. There are a number of layers of assessment around the various programmes, for example, the Comptroller and Auditor General's audit, the work of other groupings and the targets we put out. I know the Comptroller and Auditor General's report focused very much on what goes into the Revised Estimates Volume each year. There are a wide range of statistics and pieces of information, and I have folders full of them here, on the various elements of delivery among various programmes that are in place.

I said earlier that my background is as a chartered accountant, so I am keen that we have strong performance indicators which allow us to measure. Some of the points in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report are well made. We have significantly increased the number of indicators in the Revised Estimates Volume itself. We have gone from approximately nine indicators to 19 over recent years. We will add some more, a small number, because the timeframe is tight for the upcoming Revised Estimates Volume. Over the course of this year, we will work on improving the measures and linking them, most importantly to the spend, although as the Comptroller and Auditor General has acknowledged, that is complex.