My key point is that all the Ministers were over the election spending limit in last week's figures because of their private offices. I have argued for a long time that the use by Ministers in their private offices of vast sums of public money for constituency and party political purposes is disgraceful. This practice has been built into the system of all parties, no matter who has been in Government, in recent years. Ministers have a substantial number of civil servants working directly to their constituency office and dealing directly with constituency issues. This is an unhealthy development which we need to stamp out quickly. Most Ministers would not have been over the limit last week were it not for the fact that they had to take into consideration the amounts of public money spent on their campaign during the three weeks of the election campaign.