I don't think it's for me to explain exactly why the government needs that money.
I can say, though, that these professional services are used for a variety of purposes. For example, it can be on IT services that the government cannot do internally. It can also be for expertise that it doesn't have and it would not provide value for money to develop in-house. It can also be to provide some services to remote communities—for example, health services to communities.
If you have a specific question as to why the government keeps increasing its recourse to services, I would suggest that Minister Anand would probably be a better person to provide a justification. I would point out though, that the $500 million in freezing voting appropriations—the $500 million that was announced as part of the subsidy—is a small fraction of the lapse that took place last year for professional and special services. The government had booked $21.4 billion last year and lapsed $2.8 billion, or 12.9%. Freezing $500 million this year does not sound like a very binding exercise.