Yes, the spending for the department has gone up. It's certainly levelled off in the last few years. If you go back over, say, five years, spending for legal services in government went up both because of the increase in complexity and number of cases and related to salary increases and just the cost of hiring and employing staff. Demand has gone up, and the cost of delivering the services has gone up. That is true.
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