It's very difficult, I think, to trace an expenditure authority into an actual implementation during the course of the year. Parliamentarians, of course, do ask questions of ministers during the course of the year. They have the ability to call in officials and to examine them, but there is an awful lot else going on. You're passing legislation during the course of the year, and your attention is not fully focused on the way in which government departments are administering the appropriations they are making on a day-to-day or week-to-week basis. I think you probably would find you simply don't have the time to monitor in that kind of detail.
That's why it's quite important, it seems to me, to have a point at which the department then has to come back to Parliament at the end of the financial year and report on the way in which it did use those resources, its stewardship. That's what, in our system, financial review provides: an opportunity for parliamentarians to engage with departments on an annual basis.