i've been leaked simon casey's reply tojeremy hunt, and in passing he says no.was not brought into disrepute. there was just a sort of mismatch because of the fact that parliament didn't have much time between the general election and the summer. but then he goes on to make a couple of really quite pointed comments. he says that he would note, this is simon casey's words, that the sizeable in—year changes to spending plans in recent years have resulted from the lack of a new spending review to replan departmental budgets since 2021." now, let me translate the civil service speak. he's basically saying that the previous government's decision not to revise departmental budgets at any point since 2021, before inflation, before russia's invasion of ukraine, was a big reason for uncertainty in public finances. that's quite a claim from the cabinet secretary, i suspect it of rather, it had stayed private, but it got leaked to me. jeremy has responded and said... if civil servant signed off estimates to parliament that are fostered is a breach of civil service code for