I think if the Minister of Finance and the Deputy Minister of Finance look at this economic outlook and they look at an average private sector forecast—again, they're just simple averages of headline numbers, real GDP, nominal GDP, inflation, and the unemployment rate—they ask, from their point of view, if that is realistic. Can we hit our targets? Should we be planning the government's finances to that?
If they feel it seems not realistic in terms of balance, in terms of risk, then I think they should provide an independent forecast.
Again, it doesn't mean to say we can't. We can do the calculations, as we've done for the first three years of our office, where we say here's what a fiscal forecast looks like based on an average private sector forecast. They can continue to do that. I don't think it prevents them from providing their own independent view. We know they have very strong economists with economic potential in that department.