Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The difficulty in dealing with the whole publications area is the fact that there are so many different reasons and so many different audiences that we're trying to appeal to with different publications. Years ago, almost all government departments used to put out an annual report and it cost the government a lot of money because there were no clear definitions of the standards which should apply, whether an annual report should be prepared, and where it wasn't appropriate to do so because in some departments it doesn't make sense to have an annual report for an organization that only provides
internal services; like Public Works, for example. So we stopped doing annual reports, generally, three to five years ago. But when we moved away from the central control of the standards of publication, the kind of documents that were put out, we put it in the hands of departments to make those kinds of decisions themselves, based on who they had to appeal to in terms of the audience, where they could get the best deal, what kind of message they were trying to convey. 'So there is no clear standard on exactly what a public should look like, but every department is guided by who they have to appeal to, but also how much money they're spending and is it a cost-effective use of government funds.
We find generally that departments rely on us to give them advice on whether or not they're getting a good deal. That's the sort of central service that we provide and we make sure that we follow the contracting regulations.