I believe the way bandwidth is designed or suggested in our recommendation seeks to tailor public sector spending to inflation and population growth regardless of area. That way, spending growth is never exceeding what is deemed necessary by those indicators. It's a way of tracking public sector spending in line with population growth. I don't think it favours a faster growing population over others, but certainly when it comes to capital spending or infrastructure investments, variances would have to be introduced naturally since they aren't necessarily dependent on population growth. It's a way of reflecting responsible spending in a simple bandwidth format.
On November 19th, 2013. See this statement in context.