<p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer provided today by the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, my right hon. Friend the Member for Horsham (Mr Maude), to this same parliamentary question:</p><p>“The quarter 2 and quarter 3 quarterly data summary (QDS) returns of all 17 departments participating in the QDS process were delayed owing to the development of the Cabinet Office's Government interrogating spending tool (GIST). The GIST was developed in response to recommendations made in Dr. Martin Read's independent report entitled ‘Practical Steps to Improve Management Information in Government’. Before the last general election no such comparable data was published at all that allows the public to access a breakdown of Government expenditure through the Gov. UK website. It makes the process of accessing and analysing complex QDS and OSCAR data easier and quicker, and for these reasons was seen to justify a short delay in publishing QDS data.”</p>