—there's no need to include statutory information in the estimates documentation. The reason for doing so is that statutory spending is roughly two-thirds of the government's total spending, give or take, in a given year. Some people like to see that perspective.
The other perspective, of course, is that it just adds a bunch of material to the document that is not really relevant for the study. If we were to exclude statutory, we would certainly shrink the documents. We do typically use supplementary estimates.... Where we have an update from finance on a forecasted statutory expenditure, we take that occasion to update the forecasted spending for the year.
As you say, there's no reason for.... It's not voted on by parliamentarians. Whether it's useful to parliamentarians, that's up to you folks.