Thank you for your question.
The budget efficiencies that the Prime Minister's Office was able to achieve were as a result of reduced staffing and operating costs during the spring 2011 election period. During election periods, there is a greatly reduced level of activity in ministers' offices and in the Prime Minister's Office. I'm not aware of how that activity was managed in terms of layoffs, but certainly they were able to have reduced staffing and operational costs during that period.
My understanding is that there was a continued reorganization of staff and an elimination of unnecessary positions that would have been done within that organization, according to its judgment. Then, as I said earlier, the other savings were as a result of the elimination of non-essential hospitality and continued use of flight passes and other efficiencies.