Professor Michael McMahon:

The basic approach is that we get headline numbers for how much is allocated for each of the core Vote areas. We also get different tables that tell us how much of the core Vote is allocated – within, say, one Department. With regard to health expenditure, the tables tell us how much is allocated for current expenditure and how much for capital expenditure. In other areas, the current expenditure is broken down into different amounts. It is by taking the headline number as the total and stripping out the various bits that we know what has been allocated for specific-----