The last thing I'm going to return to is the question of tenure. It's hard not to refer to it as extending General Vance, but you've been very clear that a choice was presented to the Prime Minister about when the change of command should take place—whether it was before or after the election, essentially—and that's quite understandable in those terms.
Would the Prime Minister have consulted the Minister of Defence on that question of the timing of the change of command, or was that merely between the Privy Council Office—yourself—and the Prime Minister?