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What was the legality that prevented the Government from publishing the outcome of a case?

You cannot even report on the number of cases that you have had, or on how many were upheld or rejected, just so that we can try to understand whether there is an issue here or not.

So you do not think that it is appropriate to share information about whether a complaint was upheld.

At what stage would a minister be reported? I do not mean “reported” in a bad way. Is it at the initial contact and assessment stage, or is it at the investigation stage? I imagine that it would be a bit unfair on a minister if there was initial contact and assessment and then it was ruled by the ethics people that it was not a complaint. I do not feel that it would be right for that to be reported.

It is in paragraph 26.

So we do not know specifically what the money would have been used for and what impact the saving will have.

I picked that just as an example, minister. Was that money in the employability budget at the start of the year?

But where was that £53 million at the start of the year? Was there some biscuit tin with £191 million in it that has now been raided? I am struggling to understand this, because it seems to be a saving from an amount that had not been allocated in the first place.

But where was that pressure going to be funded from in the first place?

There is nothing specific, that you are aware of, that it will affect.