Thank you, Mr. Chair.
We have witnesses from Canada and from the United Kingdom. I will put my first questions to the witnesses from the United Kingdom.
Gentlemen, I'm actually going to follow up on the same question Mr. Blaney asked about your thoughts on the political aspect of votes that may be based on accrual-based accounting, and what level of authority parliamentarians in the U.K. have to vote their appropriations.
How do they approve the estimates that are presented before them, and what level of oversight do they have through the political process on the spending? Are they approving contingent liabilities? Are they only approving cash outlays? Can you explain to us a little bit about how that works?